With Selenium IDE, how can I test if an element's inner text contains a specific string? For example:
<p id="fred">abcde</p>
'id=fred' contains "bcd" = true)
With Selenium IDE, how can I test if an element's inner text contains a specific string? For example:
<p id="fred">abcde</p>
'id=fred' contains "bcd" = true)
The Selenium-IDE documentation is helpful in this situation.
The command you are looking for is assertText
, the locator would be id=fred
and the text for example *bcd*
.
It can be done with a simple wildcard:
verifyText
id="fred"
*bcd*
See selenium IDE Doc
You can also use:
assertElementPresent
css=p#fred:contains('bcd')
Are you able to use jQuery if so try something like
$("p#fred:contains('bcd')").css("text-decoration", "underline");
It seems regular expressions might work:
"The simplest character set is a character. The regular expression "the" contains three
character sets: "t," "h" and "e". It will match any line with the string "the" inside it.
This would also match the word "other". "
(From site: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Regular.html)
If you are using visual studio there is functionality for evaluating strings with regular expressions of ALL kinds (not just contains):
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
Regex.IsMatch("YourInnerText", @"^[a-zA-Z]+$");
The expression I posted will check if the string contains ONLY letters.
Your regular expression would then according to my link be "bcd" or some string you construct at runtime. Or:
Regex.IsMatch("YourInnerText", @"bcd");
(Something like that anyway)
Hope it helped.
You can use the command assertTextPresent
or verifyText