5 Element Actions

Watir Drops provides a few convenience features for interacting with form elements.

In addition to being able to pass in #set to a Radio element, #select to a Select element, and #click to a CheckBox element, etc, you can populate data directly with an equals sign.

class Foo < WatirDrops::PageObject
  element(:foo) { browser.check_box(id: 'foo') }
  element(:bar) { browser.text_field(id: 'bar') }
  element(:foobar) { browser.select_list(id: 'foobar') }

  def do_things
    self.foo = true
    self.bar = 'Text Details'
    self.foobar = 'Desired Option'
  end
end

Similarly, the default return value of an element (often getting #text, but sometimes #value or #set?, etc) can be obtained by appending a bang: bar! # => "Text Details"