How to click a button element in watir?

Question

Can I write watir code to click this button element?

The onclick event has to be triggered.

<button onclick="wizardAction('start', 'Starte Upgrade')">
            <table align="center" cellspacing="0">
                <tbody><tr>
                    <td><img src="/static/images/stock/gtk-ok.png" align="left" height="16" width="16"></td>
                    <td nowrap="nowrap">Starte Upgrade</td>
                </tr>

            </tbody></table>
</button>

Edit:

I tried it this way:

ie.button(:onclick, /start/).click

But it seems onclick is not supported:

> ruby upgrade-module.rb

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:143:in `match?':
 onclick is an unknown way of finding an <INPUT> element ((?-mix:start)) (Watir:
:Exception::MissingWayOfFindingObjectException)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:126
:in `locate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:124
:in `each'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:124
:in `locate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:122
:in `catch'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:122
:in `locate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:119
:in `each'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/locator.rb:119
:in `locate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/container.rb:8
04:in `locate_input_element'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/input_elements
.rb:5:in `locate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/element.rb:53:
in `assert_exists'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/element.rb:288
:in `enabled?'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/element.rb:60:
in `assert_enabled'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/element.rb:233
:in `click!'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/element.rb:219
:in `click'
        from upgrade-module.rb:19

Answer 1

I've run into problems like this. If the onclick attribute is not supported, you can do something like this.

b.
  buttons.
  to_a.
  select{|but| but.attribute_value(:onclick).match(/start/) }.
  first.
  click

This is just something I'm typing out from memory, so it might need some tweaking. But it allows you to match things that Watir doesn't necessarily support.

I think there's also some way to do XPath queries with Watir, you might want to look into that as well

Answer 2

One of these could work (not tested):

browser.image(:src => /gtk-ok/).click
browser.cell(:text => "Starte Upgrade").click
browser.button(:index => 1).click # assumes that it is the first button on the page
browser.button(:xpath => "//button[@onclick='wizardAction(\'start\', \'Starte Upgrade\')']").click

More information:

• http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Buttons
• http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/XPath
• http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Tutorial