Find element by label

[Aslak Hellesøy]

Consider:

<label for="uglyname">Nice Name</label>
<input id="uglyname" />

I would *like* to just say:

browser.findElement(By.label("Nice Name"))

And have that return the input element. Webrat does this and I love
it. Any way to do this in WebDriver?

Aslak

[Marc Guillemot]

What about implementing it by yourself, using an XPath in the background?

id(//label[text() = 'your label here']/@for)

Cheers,
Marc.

Aslak Hellesøy a écrit :

[Simon Stewart]

You're not the first person to request something like this. I like the
way that chickenfoot deals with this problem. Emulating that behaviour
would be nice.

Simon

[QA_manager]

I assume that you mean this chickenfoot: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/
- the Firefox extension, not the American rock group by the same
name. What does it do that you like so much?

[Simon Stewart]

The element finding is nice, in that it tries to make things really
easy for the user. In the simple case, this makes for simpler tests.

Simon