I’ve come across a page which, when I navigate to it and ask it for it’s url (using @browser.url) gives me the previous page’s url. Very frustrating. To get around this, you can use direct DOM manipulation. Here’s a call you can use in place of @browser.url which will give you the actual url of the page:
my_current_url = @browser.js_eval("document.location.toString();")
The js_eval call takes a javascript command and returns any result. In this case, we ask the document (the root element of the document object model) and ask it for its location as a string. The javascript is evaluated, and the current url in the browser is returned. BTW, if you look at the firewatir code, the js_eval method is at the core of firewatir – it’s what passes commands to jssh and gets the results back.
Hi There,
Did execute this, but am getting the foll error:
undefined method `js_eval’ for # (NoMethodError)
For watir 1.6.5 and IE7 on windows Vista
Is there any library that i need to require before calling javascript functions?
Regards,
Pals
I should have mentioned this… js_eval is the method for firewatir; execute_script is the watir equivalent. Sorry!