Brian Tomlin wrote: > That should work as far as I know. You might want to post this question > on the Watir group along with the html of the element you are trying to > access. Ah... I'm the retard I guess. Brian, your suggestion did work (thank you). In my haste I typed... browser.text_field(:iid, id_string) Catch it? Hehe... That's what I get for being impatient. Oh well, problem solved. Yay for Watir! That said, someone please update the Watir project page! The rdoc documentation is covering 1.5 or something. @Tom: > That word is nerd. No one ever feels good about > being called a nerd. No one ever intends good by > using the word (except in humorous settings). Your writing is collectivist in nature, which I reject wholesale. But this is a forum about Ruby, not philosophy/economics. If you want to talk about such things meet me at http://mises.org/Community/forums/ and I will gladly address your points. My username is angryrabbit. See you there... :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.