Links
You can use Watir to click links in a variety of ways. Watir can click links by looking at the link text you see in the browser or by looking at the attributes available in the <a> HTML tag. Common attributes are id, name and href. For complete list see Methods Supported by Element.
Here is an example using a link to the Pickaxe book by the Pragmatic Programmers:
What you see in the web browser:
What you see in the HTML source:
<a href="http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/" id="one" name="book">Pickaxe</a>
id Attribute
Watir code to click a link using the id attribute:
ie.link(:id, "one").click
name Attribute
Watir code to click a link using the name attribute:
ie.link(:name, "book").click
Text
Watir code to click a link using link's text:
ie.link(:text, "Pickaxe").click
href Attribute
Watir code to click a link using the href attribute:
ie.link(:href, "http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/").click
