<input> tags with type=button, submit, image or reset
radio
<input> tags with the type=radio; known as radio buttons
check_box
<input> tags with type=checkbox
text_field
<input> tags with the type=text (single-line), type=textarea (multi-line), and type=password
hidden
<input> tags with type=hidden
select_list
<select> tags, known as drop-downs or drop-down lists
label
<label> tags (including "for" attribute)
span
<span> tags
div
<div> tags
p
<p> (paragraph) tags
link
<a> (anchor) tags
table
<table> tags, including row and cell methods for accessing nested elements.
image
<img> tags
form
<form> tags
frame
frames, including both the <frame> elements and the corresponding pages.
map
<map> tags
area
<area> tags
li
<li> tags
:id
Used to find an element that has an "id=" attribute. Since each id should be unique, according to the XHTML specification, this is recommended as the most reliable method to find an object. *
:name
Used to find an element that has a "name=" attribute. This is useful for older versions of HTML, but "name" is deprecated in XHTML. *
:value
Used to find a text field with a given default value, or a button with a given caption, or a text field
:text
Used for links, spans, divs and other element that contain text.
:index
Used to find the nth element of the specified type on a page. For example, button(:index, 2) finds the second button. Current versions of WATIR use 1-based indexing, but future versions will use 0-based indexing.
:class
Used for an element that has a "class=" attribute.
:title
Used for an element that has a "title=" attribute.
:xpath
Finds the item using xpath query.
:method
Used only for forms, the method attribute of a form is either GET or POST.
:action
Used only for form elements, specifies the URL where the form is to be submitted.
:href
Used to identify a link by its "href=" attribute.
:src
Used to identify an image by its URL.
* :id and :name are the quickest of these to process, and so should be used when possible to speed up scripts.
button tags with type=button, submit, image or resetradio tags with the type=radio; known as radio buttonscheck_box tags with type=checkboxtext_field tags with