From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-01-31T23:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Mechanize: find form with 'id' rather than 'name'?

Mat Schaffer wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Andy Lester wrote:
>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 5:18 AM, Peter Szinek wrote:
>>> My problem is that the from does *not* have a 'name' attribute in the 
>>> html - so apparently I can not use that to locate it - therefore I 
>>> would like to use 'id' - or what else should I do?
>> I haven't dug into the Ruby Mech yet, but the Perl version lets you 
>> pick the Nth form on the page.
> 
> Ruby's should have a Page#forms that works like an array.
Yeah, you can do

my_form = doc.forms[0]

but all I have is the id attribute of the form I am looking for. (i.e. 
not the index of the form I am looking for).

So currently I am looping through all the forms  and comparing the 
current form's id (through form_node.attributes['id']) with the id I am 
looking for.

Is there a better way to do this? Or is this OK?

Peter

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