In Ruby, I'm trying to scrape a page's visible text, save it to a database, and be able to reference the containing element later on. The problem is that all the text methods return formatted text and collapse tags that no longer match the markup. Consider the following example:
<div id="el_id"> one <span>two</span> <span>three</span> </div> OR <div id="el_id">one two three</div> Getting text from visible element: element = browser.div(:id, "el_id") element.text will return "one two three" Trying to reference element later: browser.element(:text, "one two three") will not return a result ** The target element may not have an ID or class at all, which is why I'm trying to locate by text.* -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
