How to access an element with a custom attribute using Watir?

Question

I have HTML that looks like this:

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

I would like to enter text into it using Watir .

Answer 1

 browser.text_field(:xpath , "//input[@custom_attribute='so cool']/").set("even more cool") 

Sources:

• http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/XPath
• http://zeljkofilipin.com/2007/01/29/watir-select-element-using-custom-attribute/

Answer 2

Answer Filipin did not work for my work with watir-webdriver.

However, I found a way to do work with css selectors.

 browser.element(:css, "input[custom_attribute='so cool']").send_keys("the coolest")