Unfortunately that didn't work either. I did this:

browser.span(:text, /butterfly\.m4v/).click and got this:

Unable to locate Span element with text of (?-mix:butterfly\.m4v)

I'm not sure what the ?-mix: part of that is. Anything else you can
recommend?

QAguy

On Nov 19, 3:52 am, John Kolokotronis <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The dot character in a regex (.) is a wildcard so you need to escape
> it. Try this:
>
> browser.span(:text, /butterfly\.m4v/).click
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> On Nov 18, 3:35 pm, QAguy <qablogm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I cannot add an id as I don't have control over code decisions
> > unfortunately. So I am forced to work with what I have.
>
> > I also tried this: browser.span(:text, /butterfly.m4v/).click which
> > gives me this:
>
> > Unable to locate Span element with text of (?-mix:butterfly.m4v)
>
> > and this: browser.span(:title, /butterfly.m4v/).click which gives me
> > this:
>
> > SafariWatir does not currently support finding by title
>
> > So I'm kinda stumped at the moment as to what to do.
>
> > Thanks
> > QAguy
>
> > On Nov 17, 9:16 pm, Adam Esterline <a...@esterlines.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hmm... I am not sure why it cannot find the span.
>
> > > Does it seem to only be a problem when finding by text?    Can you add
> > > an id to that span?    Does it work when searching for it by id?
>
> > > Looking for a little more information.
>
> > > AE
>
> > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM, QAguy <qablogm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I am using the following:
>
> > > > browser.span(:text,'butterfly.m4v').click
>
> > > > to click on that item in the following code:
>
> > > > <span class="name">
> > > > <a title="butterfly.m4v" class="trim_to_height 1_lines" href="/videos/
> > > > 359dd3be1914b8"><span>butterfly.m4v</span></a>
> > > > </span>
>
> > > > But I get the following result:
>
> > > > Unable to locate Span element with text of butterfly.m4v
>
> > > > This is being run from a file using rpsec with safariwatir. No sure
> > > > why this is not working. Hoping someone can help.
>
> > > > Thanks
> > > > QAguy
>
> > > --
> > > Adam Esterlinehttp://adamesterline.com/
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