what does _byText do?

keats

what does _byText do?

I was trying to use that as
_byText("some text found in table first row","<td>");
it shows null..


any help.

keats

hi Narayan,

Can i access any tags by its class name instead of id?
for example:
<td id="descId" class="formTxt>
_cell("descId")- This syntax is for row id.

Is there a way to access html element by its class name.

Let me know please.

narayan

Use _byText("some text found in table first row","td"); for the first case.
In fact you can use _cell("some text found in table first row") if that is what you want.

keats

Ok. So can i access any html element by its class name?

narayan

Not really, _byText uses visible text, not tag attributes. Currently you will have to write a custom function to access an element by tag and className.

Add this to the end of sahi/htdocs/spr/concat.js

Sahi.prototype._byClassName = function (className, tagName) {
    var res = this.getBlankResult();
    var el = this.findTagHelper(className, this.top(), tagName, res, "className").element;
    return el;
};

Open sahi/config/normal_functions.txt and add _byClassName at the end of it.

Restart Sahi and you can use _byClassName("formTxt", "td");

Let me know if that works for you and I will add it to the next build.

keats

Yes Narayan, It works. I tried to click a button by accessing the class and it works perfectly fine.
_click(_byClassName("sysButn","input"));

Thanks.