generally i feel span doesnot support text refer to supported methods by element in watir wiki but confirm with others anyways try this browser.span(:text, /.*butterfly/).click
ravi On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Tiffany Fodor <tcfo...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi! > > Since you're already using a regex, could you do this: > > browser.span(:text, /butterfly/).click > > or do you have multiple spans with 'butterfly' in the text? If so, > could you specify the one you want using it's index? > > browser.span(:text => /butterfly/, :index => 3).click > > Also, it might help to determine if this issue is limited to > safariwatir or if it happens in other flavors of watir as well. Have > you tried the command on an IE or Firefox browser in irb? > > Hope this helps! > > -Tiffany > > > On Nov 19, 9:03 am, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The (?-mix stuff is just the string representation of the regexp - you > can > > see this on any regexp doing #to_s:>> /foo/.to_s > > > > => "(?-mix:foo)" > > But, I don't have anything more useful to add; I don't really know > anything > > about safariwatir - sorry. > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:59, QAguy <qablogm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
