[Wtr-general] general questions when trying Watir

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> 3 Another question will be igoogle. I add several protelet on my page.
> I can't find those links in show_all_objects, but I can use
> ie.link(:text, "How to of the Day").click to click it.
>
> Is Watir reading the html/view/source to generate the show_all_objects?

No.  The method accesses all elements in the document object model,
and in fact all the links in a page are included in its output.
They're the ones that look like this:

                  name=               id=

Which is obviously not very helpful.  The problem is that
show_all_objects prints a specific list of properties that aren't good
for distinguishing links.

You could try hacking the method to show more properties, or something like:

ie.links.each do | link |
  puts "link text: #{link.text}\thref=#{link.href}"
end