Question

Does watir’s browser.text.include? count text inside invisible divs? If so, how to search only for visible text?

I put all the instructions into the html from the beginning and use jQuery to hide and unhide the relevant parts.

How can I use watir’s waiter to wait for only text that is visible?

My problem is, that the waiter always returns true, even before I have made visible a certain text.

Answer 1

What’s wrong with:

text_from_all_my_visible_divs = br.div(:id, 'divs I care about').divs.select do |div|
  text_i_care_about(div) && div.visible?
end

def text_i_care_about(div)
  div.text =~ /regexp/
end

.visible? is in the unit tests, it’s official, don’t be scared of it 🙂

Alan