Does watir's browser.text.include? count text inside invisible divs? If so, how to search only for visible text?
I put all the instructions into the html from the beginning and use jQuery to hide and unhide the relevant parts.
How can I use watir's waiter to wait for only text that is visible?
My problem is, that the waiter always returns true, even before I have made visible a certain text.
include? sees all text, not just visible text. See WTR-433 ticket for details.
There is Element#visible? method that is not officially supported (as far as I know).
What are you trying to do? If you have a lot of text on the page, and want to show only some of it, you could put the text in a few divs and then see if the div is visible.
Don't use Watir's text method. It is very quick and dirty, and has lots of misgivings, many not even related to this issue about visible text. Solid Watir test developers will avoid it. I almost never use it myself, and only when I am doing something extremely quick and dirty. Also, it is implemented differently with different browsers.
Instead you should access the text you care about in terms of the actual element that it is in. You should reference the div or whatever.
What's wrong with:
text_from_all_my_visible_divs = br.div(:id, 'divs I care about').divs.select do |div|
text_i_care_about(div) && div.visible?
end
def text_i_care_about(div)
div.text =~ /regexp/
end
.visible? is in the unit tests, it's official, don't be scared of it :)
Alan
This works for ie watir but doesn't account for visibility:hidden; and it's slow but try it out!
def visible_text
text = ""
self.elements_by_xpath(%~//*[not(contains(@style,\"DISPLAY: none\") and ancestor::*[not(contains(@style,'DISPLAY: none'))])]~).each do |e|
text << Watir::Element.new(e).text
end
return text
end