How can I get value of element custom attribute with Watir

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Željko Filipin picture Željko Filipin · Sep 18, 2009 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I have HTML that looks like this:

<input custom_attribute="so cool" type="text" />

I would like to get value of custom_attribute using Watir.

Answer

Željko Filipin picture Željko Filipin · Sep 18, 2009 
browser.text_field(:index, 1).attribute_value("custom_attribute")
#=> "so cool"

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