Ways Available To Identify HTML Element: How to identify HTML Elemnts?

How?	HTML Example	Watir Example	Comment
:action		ie.form(:action, /page/).click	Used only for form element, specifies the URL where the form is to be submitted.
:after?	one two one	ie.link(:after?, ie.link(:text, "two")).click	Finds element after some other element.
:alt		ie.image(:alt, "Continue").click	Used to find an element that has an alt attribute (img and input).
:class		ie.link(:class, "header").click	Used for an element that has a class attribute.
:for		ie.label(:for, "header").click	Used only for label element.
:href		ie.link(:href, /page/).click	Used to identify a link by it's href attribute.
:html	add a term	ie.link(:html, /id=227/).click	Used to identify a link by it's HTML.
:id		ie.link(:id, "header").click	Used to find an element that has an id attribute. Since each id should be unique, according to the XHTML specification, this is recommended as the most reliable method to find an object.
:index		ie.button(:index, 1).click	Used to find the nth element of the specified type on a page. Current versions of Watir use 1-based indexing (starts counting at 1), but future versions will use 0-based indexing (starts counting at 0).
:method		ie.form(:method, "get").click	Used only for form, the method attribute of a form is either get or post.
:name		ie.link(:name, "header").click	Used to find an element that has a name attribute. This is useful for older versions of HTML, but name is deprecated in XHTML.
:src		ie.image(:src, /photo/).click	Used to identify an image by it's URL.
:text	click me	ie.link(:text, "click me").click	Used for link, span, div and other elements that contain text.
:title		ie.link(:title, "header").click	Used for an element that has a title attribute.
:url		ie.link(:url, /page/).click	:url is synonym for :href.
:value		ie.text_field(:value, "text").click	Used to find a text field with a given default value, or a button with a given value.
:xpath		ie.link(:xpath,"//a[@href='page.htm']").click	Finds the item using XPath query.
Multiple Attributes	click me click me	ie.link(:text => "click me", :index => 2).click	You can combine more ways of finding elements. This example will click the second link with text click me.