Angrez, Thanks for the clarification. The insight was really helpful.
Thanks & regards, KK On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Angrez Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > For benefit of others I am adding watir-general group as well. > http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Node3-textContent > > If you see the standards for getting the text of body element i.e. using > the function textContent, text should be returned by combining the text of > all the elements that are child node of the element for which you want the > text. Now for <br> element the text is empty string so it doesn't introduce > a line break. > Its not a bug in Firefox its as per the standards. > In IE, we use innerText function which is not per the standard and it does > introduce a line break when you get text. > > Issue is not which browser is following the standards and which is better, > issue is both of them see's the things differently and return different > text. > > - Angrez > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Krishna saradka < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Angrez, >> >> I'm little confused. Using a ,br. tag in html should break the line and >> move the follwoing text to the next line. Currently as per the original >> posted question on this thread, she is pointing out that the output of >> firewatir in this case is different. Which is instead of the line break it >> is introducing just a space. Where as while using IE [watir instead of >> firewatir] she is getting the desired result. >> >> While going over the below link, I understand that FF had a bug in it and >> it was not treating the <br> tag appropriately if the following text also >> continues in the same line in html code. This is observed while using >> textContext. >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> KK >> >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Angrez Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Actually for your HTML code the result returned by Firewatir is as per >>> the W3C standard. Check this link: >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316063 >>> >>> I am working on how we can actually make the results similar. >>> - Angrez >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Pallavi Sharma < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Angrez. >>>> >>>> Rgds >>>> Pallavi. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Angrez Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'll look into this issue. >>>>> - Angrez >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Krishna saradka < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> <br> by virtue should break the line and what you observe while >>>>>> running in ie is correct. May be that firewatir is not treating it that >>>>>> way. >>>>>> [I have not explored firewatir to that extent to confirm this] >>>>>> >>>>>> If you can tell us what exactly you are intend to do after getting the >>>>>> text then we can think of some workaround until we get clarity on the >>>>>> above. >>>>>> >>>>>> If you are comparing the string to arrive at some decision then for >>>>>> the time being try making it compare depending on whether it is ie or ff. >>>>>> Though this is not a clean way of doing the things. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks & regards, >>>>>> KK >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Pallavi Sharma < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Angrez >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Could you please give some time and help with this.. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Pallavi. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>>>> From: Pallavi Sharma <[email protected]> >>>>>>> Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:21 AM >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [wtr-general] Re: Fwd: Regarding Getting Page Text in >>>>>>> Watir and FireWatir >>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My code looks like this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Say the input is: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <h1> hello <br> bye <br> </h1> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Now if you do from watir saying >>>>>>> >>>>>>> puts ie.text >>>>>>> >>>>>>> it will print >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hello >>>>>>> bye >>>>>>> >>>>>>> so text is seperated by new line >>>>>>> >>>>>>> but with firewatir >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ff.text >>>>>>> >>>>>>> output is: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hello bye >>>>>>> >>>>>>> separated by space. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So thats my problem. As the delimiter used by watir and firewatir is >>>>>>> not same, i cannot simply run my same watir scripts in fire watir. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any solution or feedback on it... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards >>>>>>> Pallavi. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:52 AM, George <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What does your code look like? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Dec 27, 8:15 pm, Pallavi Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> > Hi >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > Has anyone here answer for this please. >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > Regards >>>>>>>> > Pallavi. >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>>>>> > From: Pallavi Sharma <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> > Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM >>>>>>>> > Subject: Regarding Getting Page Text in Watir and FireWatir >>>>>>>> > To: [email protected] >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > Hello >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > If i try to get the page text for watir and firewatir a peculiar >>>>>>>> problem >>>>>>>> > arises; >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > for watir if there is <br> tag then with the test a new line >>>>>>>> appers >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > but for Firewatir this doesn't happen. >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > I am not able to run directly my test cases made in watir into >>>>>>>> firewatir due >>>>>>>> > to this behaviour as the split fails on the output of this method >>>>>>>> . >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > Is there is something we could do about it/ or any other way?? >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > Regards >>>>>>>> > Pallavi. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups "Watir General" group. >>>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>>> Before posting, please read the following guidelines: >>>>>>>> http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "Watir General" group. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>> Before posting, please read the following guidelines: >>>>>>> http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Watir General" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>>> Before posting, please read the following guidelines: >>>>>> http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Watir General" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>> Before posting, please read the following guidelines: >>>>> http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Watir General" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> Before posting, please read the following guidelines: >>>> http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Watir General" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> Before posting, please read the following guidelines: >>> http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. 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