How can I get value of element custom attribute with Watir

Question

I have HTML that looks like this:

<input custom_attribute="so cool" type="text" />

I would like to get value of custom_attribute using Watir.

Answer 1

browser.text_field(:index, 1).attribute_value("custom_attribute")
#=> "so cool"

Sources:

• http://www.mail-archive.com/wtr-general%40rubyforge.org/msg06769.html
• http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Watir/Element.html#M000319
• http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/lib/watir/element.rb
• http://zeljkofilipin.com/2007/01/29/watir-select-element-using-custom-attribute/