From: Matt Todd Date: 2006-08-06T05:12:21+09:00 Subject: Re: uploading local file into text_field using watir Well, what you're doing is just taking the contents of the variable $Path and setting it to the text field. You'll actually need to open and read the file. For example... ie.text_field(:name, "html_text").set(File.new($Path).read) That should do it. M.T.