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Asked: 2026-05-21T00:30:11+00:00

My page has a <th> tag that has attendance as its CSS class. The

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My page has a <th> tag that has “attendance” as its CSS class. The following Cucumber step fails:

Then I should see "Name" within "th"

while this one passes:

Then I should see "Name" within "th.attendance"

Do I really have to use this level of specificity? I feel like, for Cucumber, that’s requiring too much knowledge of the underlying code being tested and it should be a bit more generic.

In other words, how would I say “Just find ‘[value]’ within any ‘th’ tag”? And am I wrong for wanting to do so?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try the following. It finds the given text within the given selector, using xpath.
    "//#{selector}" means that it should find tag that matches the selector.
    "[contains(text(),'#{text}']" means that the tag text should contain the given text.

    Then /^I should see "([^"]*)" within "([^"]*)"$/ do |text, selector|
  find(:xpath, "//#{selector}[contains(text(),'#{text}')]").should_not(be_nil, "Could not find the text '#{text}' within the selector '#{selector}'")
end
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