Web testing and development | watir-webdriver Droplets

About Droplets of Watir

This is a collection of tips for people using watir-webdriver. Some of the snippets are very simple but added here for completeness. More elaborate examples will be added over time.

How to get started

To start using these tools you need to setup some things first. Webdriver (both Selenium and Watir) has bindings for several languages. The examples on this site are written in Ruby, which is what I always use if I get to choose the language.

You also need to install gems, Ruby libraries written to do specific tasks. For example, the webdrivers themselves are installed as gems.

A complete guide for setting up the above on Windows is available in spriteCloud 's blog: setup on windows

On the Mac or Linux, using rvm is the easiest way to get Ruby installed. Once Ruby is installed, installing gems is as simple as

gem install watir-webdriver

Clearing a text field 04/03/2013

input text_field clear

# Clearing the value of a text field with a specific ID
browser.text_field(id: 'text_field_with_a_value').clear

In addition to setting the value of a text field, it can also be cleared. Clearing the field can be done with the .clear method.

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