Selenium 2.0 Webdriver & Ruby, link element methods other than .text? Navigate.to links in array?
I was not sure of the format for use with the attribute method, but after some experimenting I was able to move past this step.
@countries = Array.new
@browser.navigate.to "http://www.testingdomain{$env}.com/global"@browser.find_elements(:xpath, "//table[@class='global-list']//a").each do |link|text = link.attribute("text")href = link.attribute("href")@countries << [text, href]end #links`@countries.uniq! #DEBUG for false CMS content
Looks like you found your answer to your question on your own.
Indeed, element.attribute allows you to pull any HTML attribute a tag could possibly have. Thus, since you were wanting to pull the URL of the element, you used element.attribute('href') to return the element's href="" attribute. The same can be done for any other attributes, including class, id, style, etc.