[Wtr-general] Finding the name of objects

[Lillis, Dara]

In addition to the other suggestions, SpySmith is a useful tool for
getting this sort of information.

http://qualityforge.com/spysmith/



> 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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