just_add_watir | Advanced recipes for Watir » .gsub http://justaddwatir.com Advanced recipes for Watir Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Q. How do I set a checkbox with a dynamic id attribute? http://justaddwatir.com/2008/q-how-do-i-set-a-checkbox-with-a-dynamic-id-attribute/ http://justaddwatir.com/2008/q-how-do-i-set-a-checkbox-with-a-dynamic-id-attribute/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:59:10 +0000 admin http://justaddwatir.com/watir/?p=40 A. Use a regex match to populate a dynamic variable ...
Example html:

<form action="test_0019.html" method="get" accept-charset="utf-8">
<input id="cblRoles_3" type="checkbox" tabindex="47" name="cblRoles:3"/>
<label for="cblRoles_3">Customer</label>
<input id="cblRoles_4" type="checkbox" tabindex="48" name="cblRoles:4"/>
<label for="cblRoles_4">Expedite</label>

Example watir:

dynamic_id = @b.html[/cblRoles_\d+>Expedite/].gsub(">Expedite","")
@b.checkbox(:id,dynamic_id).set
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