[wtr-general] Re: Reading special characters

2009-09-01 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM, GJHmf graham.harb...@webroster.net wrote: span class=disabled prev_page« Previous/span Try this: browser.span(:class, disabled prev_page).click Željko -- http://watirpodcast.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[wtr-general] Re: Reading special characters

2009-09-01 Thread GJHmf
Thanks for these Željko, Both work great in locating and verifying the special character is there with .span. Oddly having never used .span before, I'll be using the :class suggestion to verify the link I have is disabled. Knowing I can't currently verify literal link text '\253 Previous' (as

[wtr-general] Re: Reading special characters

2009-09-01 Thread GJHmf
While the .span suggestion is a short term solution in my test environment for a disabled :class, for future reference I would still like to know if there's any possible way of verifying '«' and '»' characters in literal text on a page; as if I can verify a link exists with that text, I can check

[wtr-general] Re: Reading special characters

2009-09-01 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:57 PM, GJHmf graham.harb...@webroster.net wrote: if there's any possible way of verifying '«' and '»' characters in literal text on a page browser.text.include?(\253 Previous) Željko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[wtr-general] Re: Reading special characters

2009-09-01 Thread GJHmf
How annoying; I thought I had tried and failed on that very solution, now it works. My hands are up, it must have been a typo of some sort on my part. Once again, thanks Željko. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[wtr-general] Re: Reading special characters

2009-09-01 Thread Dylan
Also, you can get around the special character (so you dont have to look each one up) by using a regex and the regular text: browser.text.include?(/Previous/) browser.span(:text,/Previous/).click On Sep 1, 6:52 am, GJHmf graham.harb...@webroster.net wrote: How annoying; I thought I had tried