[Webtest] <verifyText>: Add an attribute "ignoreHiddenText"

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:05:38 +0100

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Hi Marc, hi all,

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<verifyText> will yield true if the searched text is in the page. So far
so good. I face the problem that this behaviour will the same even if
the text is sorrounded by a <div style=3D"display: none"> so that it is
apparently not displayed by the browser and therefore invisible for a
human being.

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Does it make sense to add an attribute, for example named
"ignoreHiddenText" (default: false, not to affect existing tests. Better
default: true, which would be more intuitive) so that webtest only finds
text, that is visible in the browser?

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Or better write a new tag <verifyDisplayedText> that ignores all
html-tags and hidden text maybe as an extension of <tagStripper>?

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Does anybody encounter similar problems?

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Comments are welcome.

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Cheers,

Christoph

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Hi Marc, hi all,</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

&lt;verifyText&gt; will yield true if the searched =
text is
in the page. So far so good. I face the problem that this behaviour will =
the
same even if the text is sorrounded by a &lt;div style=3D&#8220;display:
none&#8220;&gt; so that it is apparently not displayed by the browser =
and
therefore invisible for a human being.

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

Does it make sense to add an attribute, for example =
named
&quot;ignoreHiddenText&quot; (default: false, not to affect existing =
tests.
Better default: true, which would be more intuitive) so that webtest =
only finds
text, that is visible in the browser?

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Or better write a new tag &lt;verifyDisplayedText&gt; =
that
ignores all html-tags and hidden text maybe as an extension of
&lt;tagStripper&gt;?</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Does anybody encounter similar =
problems?</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Comments are welcome.</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cheers,</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Christoph</span></font></p>

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