HTML Elements supported by Watir

The HTML Elements that are currently supported include:

button 

<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 

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s/T8|wS#g:?0原文地址：http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Methods+supported+by+Element
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