[Wtr-general] Finding the name of objects

[Chris McMahon]

The Developer Toolbar is great
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en

Also, Watir has nice "show_all_*" methods we like to use from IRB.
Using the "flash" method from IRB is also recommended.

And eventually, you even get pretty good at reading the HTML.
-Chris

On 5/3/07, Ken <forum-watir-users at openqa.org> wrote:
> I just got started with this and am trying to write a simple script to get my feet wet.  I was following the googlesearch.rb case that is provided.  My question is how do you find the name of the object that you want to perform an action with?  For example:
>
> ie.text_field(:name, "q").set("pickaxe") # q is the name of the search field
>
> How do you know that q is the name of the search field?  I viewed the source of the page and eventually found the field named q but it was not obvious or easy.  It was so murky that if I didnt know already that the fields name was q I never would have found it.  Is there a simple way to identify a list box, text field, radio button...etc?
>
> Thanks.
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