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kmancusi
kmancusi

Reputation: 571

Rspec and Watir; locating and changing <span> text within a button element

I am playing around with rpsec and watir-webdriver, and am encountering a strange issue where I can click into a button, but I cannot interact with (or change) the text in the span inside.
This is what the html looks like:

<button class="pure-button toggle-mode button-link edit-text-button-element" data-reactid=".0.1.0.1.1.0.0.0.0" title="Edit">
    <span class="value false" data-reactid=".0.1.0.1.1.0.0.0.0.0">Untitled</span>
    </span>
</button>

Right now my ruby code looks like this:

foo = @browser.button(:class, 'pure-button toggle-mode button-link edit-text-button-element')
foo.click
foo.span.set('Hello')

Running this gives me the initial error expected Hash or (:how, 'what'), got ["Hello"]
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 820

Answers (3)

kmancusi
kmancusi

Reputation: 571

Found a solution that works: after clicking to interact with the element, I was able to set text by using send_keys. So I did this:

foo = @browser.button(:class, 'pure-button toggle-mode button-link edit-text-button-element')
foo.click
@browser.send_keys {keystrokes simulated here}

Upvotes: 2

Antesser
Antesser

Reputation: 669

That is because you cannot set text of the span in watir-webdriver. At least so easily. But if you will do for example:

puts foo.span.text

it will work. Here is the full list of what you can do with span: Usefull Link

Of course there is the way to change the text in your span:

browser.execute_script("arguments[0].textContent= 'Hello'", foo.span)

But I cannot imagine the situation when it will be really necessary for the real testing in a real world.

Upvotes: 1

titusfortner
titusfortner

Reputation: 4194

The class locator only accepts a single class.

If you need all of the classes for it to be unique do:

@browser.button(css: ".pure-button.toggle-mode.button-link.edit-text-button-element")

Upvotes: 0

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