How to click on link element with specific text using watir?

Question

I'm not able to click on text link 'Add' using watir:

PAGE:

<div id="divAdd" style="float: right">
    <a onclick="SwitchView('2')" style="color: #1B56A7; cursor: pointer;">Add</a>
</div>

Watir CODE:

browser.link(:text =>"Add").click

EXCEPTION:

Unable to locate element, using {:tag_name=>["a"], :text=>"Add"}

Please help me how to handle this?

Answer 1

If the page has a lot of ajax and javascript going on, you may just have to wait a little bit for the client side code to finish rendering the page after it has been loaded from the browser.

Try this

browser.link(:text =>"Add").when_present.click

If that does not work, then make sure the item is not in a frame or something..

btw, if there is more than one link on the page with the text 'Add' then you may have to specify a container outside the link that lets you identify which link you want. eg.

browser.div(id: => "divAdd").link.when_present.click

If

Answer 2

This would be my way of doing it.

while browser.div(:class, 'containerDIV').a(:text, 'Add').exists? do
    browser.div(:class, 'containerDIV').a(:text, 'Add').click 
 end