HTML Elements Supported by Watir

Watir method HTML tag :action :after? :alt :class :for :href :url :html :id :index :method :name :src :text :title :value :xpath Multiple Attributes
area <area>
button <button> <input type="button"> <input type="image"> <input type="reset"> <input type="submit">
If the input type is image
cell <td>
checkbox <input type="checkbox">
dd <dd>                                  
div <div>
dl <dl>
dt <dt>
em <em>
file_field <input type="file">
form <form>
frame <frame> <iframe>
h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>
hidden <input type="hidden">
image <img>
label <label>
li <li>
link <a>
map <map>
p <p>
pre <pre>
radio <input type="radio">
row <tr>
select_list <select>
span <span>
strong <strong>
table <table>
tbody <tbody>
text_field <input type="password"> <input type="text"> <textarea>
ul <ul>
New Browser Windows n/a

If you want to ask Watir directly which HTML elements it knows about, execute this code (contributed by Bret Pettichord at watir-general, works only on Windows):

require 'watir/ie'

def is_element_subclass? klass
  while klass = klass.superclass
    return true if klass == Watir::Element
  end
end

ObjectSpace.each_object(Class){|c| puts c if is_element_subclass?(c)}

You should get this (for Watir 1.6.5):

Watir::Link
Watir::Image
Watir::TableCell
Watir::TableRow
Watir::TableBody
Watir::TableBodies
Watir::Table
Watir::CheckBox
Watir::Radio
Watir::RadioCheckCommon
Watir::FileField
Watir::Hidden
Watir::TextField
Watir::Button
Watir::SelectList
Watir::InputElement
Watir::Em
Watir::Strong
Watir::Dd
Watir::Dt
Watir::Dl
Watir::H6
Watir::H5
Watir::H4
Watir::H3
Watir::H2
Watir::H1
Watir::Ul
Watir::Li
Watir::Label
Watir::Area
Watir::Map
Watir::Span
Watir::Div
Watir::P
Watir::Pre
Watir::NonControlElement
Watir::Form
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