I am planning to add multiple attribute support to Watir. For example: ie.div(:class => "MenuItem", :text => "Pulverize").click The old syntax would continue to be supported. ie.div(:text, "Pulverize").click Moreover, you could now also specify single attributes using this new "hash" syntax. Thus: ie.div(:text => "Pulverize").click These would allow any types of attributes to be mixed. In the case of ":index", the index would apply last. Therefore ie.div(:class => "MenuItem", :index => 3).click Would click the third div on the page whose class=MenuItem. In effect, set of attributes would have an :index of 1 unless something else were specified.