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POWhy does WatiN only find by id from a <TR> some of the time?
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copied!<p>I'm trying to do some web automation to login and check the status of an order with WatiN on a dynamically loaded webpage. I'm using Visual Studio C# Express 2010 and an IE browser.</p> <p>A few pieces of code to get the .Text from a <code><TD></code> that was working just fine yesterday is no longer working. The <code><TD></code> in question contains a <code><NOBR></code> and <code><INPUT></code>, is this the issue?</p> <p>The text I need is also in the <code><INPUT></code> but the tag has no <code>ID</code> or <code>NAME</code> attribute defined and contains inner text/value that isn't the same from test to test. I can not edit the site in question, or this would have been fixed ages ago.</p> <p>The culprit:</p> <pre><code>public TableCell Status { get { return Document.TableCell(Find.ById("elementID")); } } </code></pre> <p>The other TableCells aren't working but TextFields and buttons are just fine. My hunch is that the website is a large one and WatiN is maybe timing out once in a while trying to find the element. I was fairly certain that WatiN only threw the <code>ElementNotFoundException()</code> once it got to the end of the document, though. (???)</p> <p>The form elements weren't fully loading for debugging before reaching them so I thought that might be an issue but the for elements that were NOT elements were all loaded correctly and exists was true for all of them. Besides, that's just a debug issue and it worked fine when I copied the .exe to desktop with my .dll files.</p> <p>I already set my debugger so that "Enable property evaluation and other implicit function calls" is disabled and that didn't help.</p> <p>The method worked when I was running the straight .exe but not through visual studio. Then it stopped working when I rebuilt the very same code and copied the .exe to desktop again.</p> <p>UPDATE: Apparently the web admin of the site to connect to made some changes that broke a bunch of things, so maybe my code is fine after all? I will update again when I get a response from him.</p>

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