show_links

[chris.defelice]

Does anyone know of a way to store the output of show_links as an
array? I've tried setting the array equal to something like
ie.frame("mainFrame").show_links but the array always comes back as
nil.

I basically need this so I can loop through all the links on a page and
do various automated tests.

 

[ChrisH]

show_links grabs the links and sends them to stdout

it uses doc.links, so that may be what you need

cheers

 

[pmr.nitrobackup]

Does anyone know of a way to store the output of show_links as an
array? I've tried setting the array equal to something like
ie.frame("mainFrame").show_links but the array always comes back as
nil.

I basically need this so I can loop through all the links on a page and
do various automated tests.

you need to do this:

ie.frame("mainFrame").links.each do |this_link|
# do something with this_link,
# eg puts this_link.to_s
# this_link.click
# etc
end

Paul

 

[chris.defelice]

you need to do this:

ie.frame("mainFrame").links.each do |this_link|
# do something with this_link,
# eg puts this_link.to_s
# this_link.click
# etc
end

Paul

Thanks! That helped a lot

 

[pmr.nitrobackup]

Does anyone know of a way to store the output of show_links as an
array? I've tried setting the array equal to something like
ie.frame("mainFrame").show_links but the array always comes back as
nil.

I basically need this so I can loop through all the links on a page and
do various automated tests.

you need to do this:

ie.frame("mainFrame").links.each do |this_link|
# do something with this_link,
# eg puts this_link.to_s
# this_link.click
# etc
end

Paul

 

[Chris]

This is how I was able to fill an array with just the actual hyperlinks
of all the links on a page:

linkcount = Array.new
length = ie.document.frames.length

for i in 1..length
linkcount = ie.frameindex, i).links.length
for y in 1..linkcount
ar[y] = ie.frameindex, i).links[y].href
end
i = i + 1
end