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Goalie
Goalie

Reputation: 3105

How do you check to see if there is a specific piece of text in a span tag using Rspec/Capybara?

I'm currently using the following piece to code to check if my page has a specific piece of text:

it { should have_selector('test_container', text: 'hiya') }

All I'm checking is a span on my page:

<span id="test_container">hiya</span>

How do I do I test for the contents of a specific span tag like this? I don't want to check the entire page for the text 'hiya' but a specific span tag like the above.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3148

Answers (1)

Sam Peacey
Sam Peacey

Reputation: 6034

Capybara gives you two possibilities here, you can either use the find method:

find('#text_container').should have_content('hiya')

or you can scoping to restrict a block to an html container:

within '#text_container' do
  page.should have_content 'hiya'
end

Note that although you're saying page.should in the block, it is restricted to the scoped element.

Upvotes: 5

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