Question

I am trying to check to see if text is present using Selenium 2 and Firefox but cant seem to find the method to use. I tried to use the method is_text_present which seems to be what everyone says work but will not work for me. I get the returned error:

NoMethodError: undefined method `is_text_present’ for# Selenium::WebDriver::Driver:0x1017232e0 browser=:firefox

How do you check the page for text using Selenium 2 and Firefox?

When I tried this stack overflow option “Finding text in page with selenium 2” it did not work for me, I believe it doesn’t work because I am using Ruby to do my test, not Java.

Answer 1

require 'selenium-webdriver'
br = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
br.get "http://cnn.com"
br.find_element(:id=>"cnnMainPage")
br.find_element(:id=>"cnnMainPage").text.include? "Mideast"

I tested this in the irb, so you may run into timing problems (may have to wait for the element to be present first).