Opening a Specific Email in GMail Using C# and WatiN

Question

I've been working with sending and receiving email through various web-mail clients using WatiN, I've got logging in, writing and sending emails working perfectly, however I am having issues opening specific emails.

Each email I send has a specific id codein the subject, but I can't work out how to tell WatiN to actually click the specific email. I would of thought it would be something like:

ie.Link(Find.ByText("UN1QU3_1D")).Click();

But due to how Gmail and Live set up their display this doesn't seem to work...

Also, a slightly simpler question, is there a way of preventing WatiN closing the browser once it has finished with it?

Does anyone have any bright ideas?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Since all gmail message titles are actually in spans not links, I think this will work:

ie.Span(Find.ByText("UN1QU3_1D")).Click();

Also, as far as I remember, WatiN won't close a browser unless you specifically closed them, like:

ie.Close();

UPDATE:

Finally it worked for me :D Span ieFramesSpan = ie.Frames[3].Span( delegate(Span s) { return s.InnerHtml==null? false: s.InnerHtml.Contains("UN1QU3_1D"); }); ieFramesSpan.MouseDown();