Good question. I am talking about (and arguing agains) using the text method on the IE object itself (IE#text), not using on specific elements on a page.
Bret On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Alan Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, pretty reluctant to add any methods that will be hard to implement > in > > different implementations. As it is already, the "text" method is not > > compatible between versions and we should really be encouraging people > not > > to use it. I don't think it really is a good practice any way. > > Bret - > > Can you clarify this a bit? I'm thinking you are saying it's not good > practice, say, to get the text of a span by doing 'browser.span(:id, > 'someid').text'. However, I'm not sure I can immediately think of a > better way of doing this other than parsing the html. I'm pretty sure > that's not what you mean. > > What is the better way of doing this? > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > -- Bret Pettichord Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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