Watir - finding element in form

[Phil Mcdonnell]

I'm trying to use Watir to log into a page. I can't seem to find the
login button in order to click on it. From the Watir examples I've read
it seems I need the following code:

browser = Watir::Safari.new
browser.goto @login_page
browser.text_fieldname, 'UserID').set(ARGV[0])
browser.text_fieldname, 'Password').set(ARGV[1])
browser.buttonalt, 'Login').click

However, the final line doesn't do anything. Note, the text_field lines
do correctly set the username and password. Any idea how to fix this?

Here's the relavent html:

<FORM NAME="frmLogon"
ACTION="/myca/logon/us/action?request_type=LogLogonHandler&location=us_logon1"
METHOD="POST" onkeypress="formSub(event)">

... lots of stuff ...

<input type='image' src ="/myca/logon/us/shared/images/btn_login.gif"
alt="Login" style="margin-top:5;margin-left:20;margin-bottom:22" border
= "0" tabIndex='5' onClick="javascript:loginNow();return false;">


... lots of stuff ...

</FORM>

Also, the full site is here:
https://online.americanexpress.com/...ountSummary&us_nu=logincontrol&Info=CUExpired

 

[Dimitri Df]

You could try to use :index to find the form you want and submit it that
way.
example: browser.formindex, 1).submit
Or by using :name of the form
example: browser.formname, 'frmLogon').submit

I'm trying to use Watir to log into a page. I can't seem to find the
login button in order to click on it. From the Watir examples I've read
it seems I need the following code:

browser = Watir::Safari.new
browser.goto @login_page
browser.text_fieldname, 'UserID').set(ARGV[0])
browser.text_fieldname, 'Password').set(ARGV[1])
browser.buttonalt, 'Login').click

However, the final line doesn't do anything. Note, the text_field lines
do correctly set the username and password. Any idea how to fix this?

Here's the relavent html:

<FORM NAME="frmLogon"
ACTION="/myca/logon/us/action?request_type=LogLogonHandler&location=us_logon1"
METHOD="POST" onkeypress="formSub(event)">

... lots of stuff ...

<input type='image' src ="/myca/logon/us/shared/images/btn_login.gif"
alt="Login" style="margin-top:5;margin-left:20;margin-bottom:22" border
= "0" tabIndex='5' onClick="javascript:loginNow();return false;">


... lots of stuff ...

</FORM>

Also, the full site is here:
https://online.americanexpress.com/...ountSummary&us_nu=logincontrol&Info=CUExpired

 

[Hassan Schroeder]

I'm trying to use Watir to log into a page. =A0I can't seem to find the
login button in order to click on it. =A0From the Watir examples I've rea= d
it seems I need the following code:

browser.buttonalt, 'Login').click

However, the final line doesn't do anything.

Here's the relavent html:

=A0<input type=3D'image' src =3D"/myca/logon/us/shared/images/btn_login.g= if"
alt=3D"Login" style=3D"margin-top:5;margin-left:20;margin-bottom:22" bord= er
=3D "0" tabIndex=3D'5' onClick=3D"javascript:loginNow();return false;">

I've never used Watir, but a quick glance at the API has this for the
"button" method --

"Used to access a button element. Usually an <input type =3D "button"> HTML=
tag."

Which the form snippet above clearly is not. So I'm not sure why you
expect this to work.

Either you have to find the appropriate method, or select that input
element some other way.

HTH,
--=20
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ (e-mail address removed)
twitter: @hassan