Thank you so much Ethan..
We would surely try and implement this snippet and get back in case we
face any issues.
Thanks again,
Betsy Joy
On Feb 10, 8:54 pm, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The difference between firefox and IE generally being on whitespace,
> you can match text by matching a regexp which splits on whitespace.
> Instead of element.text.include?("New Delhi to Mumbai") try
> element.text.match(/^New\s+Delhi\s+to\s+Mumbai$/)
> you could generalize this into a method like
>
> class Watir::Element
> def text_include_ignore_whitespace?(string_to_match)
> tokens=string_to_match.split(/\s+/)
> regexp_to_match=Regexp.new(tokens.map{|token|
> Regexp.escape(token)}.join("[\\s\302\240]+"), nil, 'U')
>
> return !!(self.text =~ regexp_to_match)
> end
> end
>
> then element.text_include_ignore_whitespace?("New Delhi to Mumbai")
> should return true.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:35, Angrez Singh <ang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What differences do you see when you use the .HTML method?
>
> > - Angrez
>
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Betsy Joy <joybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi Angrez,
> >> Thanks for the suggestion.
> >> If it is the thread by Pallavi that your referred to, well we are together
> >> trying to use Firewatir and Watir for Automation.
> >> Initially we had used the ".html" method for the Text verification process
> >> on the page, but that did not work for us since it was returning extra
> >> portions of malformed tags which was corrupting our results. And so we
> >> migrated to using ".text" method instead. Now that even this is giving us
> >> trouble, we are trying to build a wrapper around this method to be able to
> >> mimic the ".text" method of Watir. Kindly let us know if this behaviour of
> >> introducing newline characters is limited to formatting tags or is it
> >> something deeper?
> >> This information will help us to decide if and how we could build the
> >> wrapper we require.
> >> Have a nice day !!
> >> Thanks and Regards,
> >> Betsy Joy.
>
> >> On 10 February 2010 13:30, Angrez Singh <ang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> There was another thread on the same issue by somebody else also. The
> >>> thing is both IE and Firefox implements the 'text' method for elements in
> >>> different ways. What I would suggest is if you can go and match the HTML
> >>> content.
> >>> Let me know if that works.
>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Angrez
>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Betsy <joybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> Hi Angrez,
>
> >>>> We have a scenario wherein we need to confirm the presence of a
> >>>> particular text string on a page.
>
> >>>> String as it appears on screen =
> >>>> New Delhi to Mumbai
>
> >>>> Html =
> >>>> <b>New Delhi</b> to <b>Mumbai</b>
>
> >>>> String returned by .text in Watir =
> >>>> New Delhi to Mumbai
>
> >>>> String returned by .text in FiewWatir =
> >>>> New Delhi
> >>>> to Mumbai
>
> >>>> Due to this difference in the behaviour of .text, my validation fails
> >>>> everytime I try doing a ff.text.include? "New Delhi to Mumbai" in
> >>>> FireWatir.
>
> >>>> There is a Jira ticket already open with regard to the .text method
> >>>> for FireWatir. Could you please let us know if this newline is being
> >>>> introduced due to the presence of formatting tags and if so is it
> >>>> limited to Formatting tags only?
>
> >>>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>> Betsy Joy
>
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