Get text from table cell

simi823

Please bare with me as a newbie...

The div tag id in a table cell generates a unique number like so:
<div id="standing_division_wins_458873" class="editable_clean">8</div>
The 458873 is generated for other values in the table.
I can get the text of that cell using this:
_getText(_cell(_table("searchresults_table"), 2, 5));
or similar code for the other rows and columns. But, the text returned is this:
226 new Ajax.InPlaceEditor('standing_division_points_458873', '/reporter/ajax/inline/edit/standing/458873/division_points/', {size:4});

I need the 226 value only, but it varies in length in the different cells I access.

How else can I get only the div tag text, since I can't use the div id because the last number of the id varies?

tsiva

Hi Simmi,
I have used row name/id and the column idex, from which the value to be accessed, to get a cell value... I was able to get a cell value using the below one line code...
var $dealerAddress = _getText(_row("dealers_tr3").cells[6]);
here, I have saved the cell value (in column 7 of row number 3 in dealers table) to a variable to compare it on next page. I hope this will help...

here "dealers_tr3" is the row identification and [6] is the column index.

simi823

Or, get the text in the table cell from the div tag that _containsText("standing_division_wins_")? Is that possible?

gaveyom

Hi Simi,

Pl try following code

_set($tableData, getTableContents(1));


<browser>

    // Fetches table contents. contents will be accessible via indexes. 
    function getTableContents(id){
        var array2d = new Array();
        var x=document.getElementsByTagName("table");
        var rows = x[id].rows;
        
        for (var i=0; i<rows.length; i++){
            var row = rows[i];
            array2d[i] = new Array();
            var cells = rows[i].cells;
            for (var j=0; j<cells.length; j++){
                array2d[i][j] = _getText(cells[j]);
            }
        }    
        return array2d;
    }

</browser>

simi823

graveyom -- when you use the <browser> tag, does that mean that the function should be saved in the html that I'm testing? I do not have access to that page or it is already built and cannot modify with my sahi script. Therefore, I need to read the table data within the sahi script I am testing on the website.

simi823

So I tried graveyom's suggestion in my sahi script but the function was not recognized. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

tsiva suggestion was great and it works in the sahi controller, but running the script give me this error:
_assertEqual(_getText(_table(0).rows[3].cells[1]), "7"); TypeError: _sahi._table(...).rows[3]

Though, using this _assertEqual(_getText(_table(0).rows[3].cells[1]), "7"); in the record mode of the sahi controller's Evaluate Expression gives me True.

I'm using Firefox and here is the snippet of script from the sahi script I am running:
for (var $a=0; $a < $away_scores.length; $a++) {
var $selectCount = 1;
if ($a == $away_scores.length) {
_assertEqual(_getText(_table(0).rows[3].cells[$selectCount]), $row[8]);
} else {
_assertEqual(_getText(_table(0).rows[3].cells[$selectCount]), $away_scores[$a]);
}
$selectCount += 1;
}

So confusing why this is not working!!!

tsiva

Hi Simi823,
It seems you are using row number instead of row_id. Could you please check with row_id and see whether that works?
I am also not sure whether _table().rows().cells() will works in sahi.

simi823

Hi tsiva,

Thank you for the quick reply. OK, so then I add to my script the following to test it out:
_alert(_getText(_cell(_table(0), 3, 1)));
And then get the following error:
_alert(_getText(_cell(_table(0), 3, 1))); Error: The parameter passed to _getText was not found on the browser
But, again when I test it in the Evaluate expression of the controller it works fine. I don't know if this makes a difference, but when I run the script it starts on one page, then opens up a link to another page in a new window. Do you think this would have something to do with the problem? I am so frustrated at this point!!!

UPDATE: It was because of the separate page, so nevermind!!! I figured it out. I was using _click to the link rather than use _navigateTo. Rookie mistake!!!