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Ruby/Watir: Clicking elements with role="button"

I'm trying to write a script that will automatically click a button when entering a site.

The HTML of the site is as follows:

<span id="zolaDisclaimerButton" class="dijitReset dijitStretch dijitButtonContents" waistate="labelledby-zolaDisclaimerButton_label" wairole="button" dojoattachpoint="titleNode,focusNode" role="button" aria-labelledby="zolaDisclaimerButton_label" tabindex="0" title="I acknowledge this disclaimer... Let ZoLa begin!" style="-moz-user-select: none;">

I have tried the following and they don't work:

browser.span(:id, "zolaDisclaimerButton").click
browser.button(:id, "zolaDisclaimerButton").click

How do I go about clicking those types of button? The URL in question is: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/template?applicationName=ZOLA

EDIT: this is the code I use:

require "watir"
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto "http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/template?applicationName=ZOLA"
browser.span(:id, "zolaDisclaimerButton").click
puts "fin"

It navigates to the page, doesn't click anything, then prints 'fin' (to let me know it's done). No exception is thrown.

Solution

  • If the page is not loading in time, you can add waits - see http://watirwebdriver.com/waiting/. These wait methods will wait until either the condition is met or a time limit is exceeded. It is better than using sleep since it only waits as long as needed (rather than waiting 2 seconds for something that loads in 1 second).

    In this case, use the when_present method on the span before clicking it:

    require "watir"
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto "http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/template?applicationName=ZOLA"
browser.span(:id, "zolaDisclaimerButton").when_present.click
puts "fin"