It sounds as though 'FOO' is in your HTML but not in the text of the page.
'FOO' appearing in ie.show_all_objects does not mean it will appear in ie.text. If 'FOO' does not appear in ie.text (try "puts ie.text"), then ie.contains_text('FOO') and ie.text.include?('FOO') are always going to return false. Including a HTML example in your post would help figure this out. On Jan 23, 10:53 am, Michael Hwee <michael_h...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Or, just get ride of 'assert' and 'contains_text'. > > Just use > > if ie.text.include?("FOO") > puts "FOO found" > else > puts "FOO not found" > end > > Michael > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> > To: watir-general@googlegroups.com > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:05:46 AM > Subject: [wtr-general] Re: ie.contains_text problem > > I'm not sure if contains_text returns false or nil when fails to find a > match. Try this instead: > > if assert(ie.contains_text("FOO")) > > Monkeybuns wrote: > > The following code returns "FOO not found" even though > > "FOO" is present in the output of ie.show_all_objects: > > > ie = Watir::IE.attach(:title,"FooBar Report") > > ie.show_all_objects > > if assert(ie.contains_text("FOO") != nil) > > puts "FOO found" > > else > > puts "FOO not found" > > end > > > Seems to me like this should work, though I'm very new > > to Watir. I get the following result: > > > C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:48:in `assert_block': > > <false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError) > > from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:500:in > > `_wrap_assertion' > > from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:46:in > > `assert_block' > > from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:63:in `assert' > > from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:495:in > > `_wrap_assertion' > > from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:61:in `assert' > > > Any wisdom? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---