Another thought is that the word 'next' could be hidden in the html,
although I'm not sure if Watir searches for hidden text.
On Aug 21, 10:12 am, Chuck van der Linden wrote:
> Seems to me that the letters 'next' might be rather common to find on
> a lot of pages, and are you SURE it's not there even if perhaps part
> of another word?
>
> If the 'next' is a clickable link or button , then perhaps you'd be
> better off to look to see if the link exists?
>
> while browser.link(:text, 'Next').exists?
> or
> while browser.button(:text, 'Next').exists?
>
> That's a lot less likely to give you a false hit on some other aspect
> of the page contents
>
> On Aug 20, 1:38 pm, curious wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have below WATIR code, which will download series of web pages by
> > navigating thru page number. Each search will present series of
> > pages, and the last page in the series does not contain the text
> > 'Next'.
>
> > However, below code keeps running and goes on presenting the last page
> > that does not contain the text "Next". It seems to me that the while
> > condition is true to the page right before the last page, and this
> > page right before the last page contains the text, "Next", and it
> > never goes out of the loop, [ ... while ie.contains_text
> > ("Next")..].
>
> > Is there anyway to make it get out of the loop? The last page surely
> > does not contain the text, "Next", but it seems to me that below code
> > does not detect it.
>
> > Any help / suggestion will be deeply appreciated.
>
> > Thank you.
>
> > ---
> > -
>
> > while ie.contains_text("Next")
>
> > File.open("#{PageNo}.html", "wb") { |f|
>
> > f << ''
> > f << ie.html
> > f << ''
>
> > PageNo = PageNo + 1
>
> > ie.goto("http://www.test.com/#{PageNo}";
>
> > end
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