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• globalworming Moderators

  February 2013

  With $element.id you can get the .... http://dundundun.net/ ... elementID! ^^
  
  is that what u asked for?
• jkb Members

  February 2013

  I'm not sure what you mean @globalwarming; could you provide the syntax? I would like to look for a partial title and get back the element(s) that match it.
• globalworming Moderators

  February 2013

  ok, if I understand right, you look for all "not found" which are in a heading?
  you could use the _collect API to gather all elements and return the id

  // do that for heading2, div... whereever you look
  // you my need an inElement argument
  // see http://sahi.co.in/w/browser-action-apis for collect API
  $elements= _collect('_heading1', '/not found/');
  // log element id
  for ($i=0; $i < $elements.lenght; $i++){
    _log("Not found in element" + $element.id);
  }
  

  
  does that solve your problem?
  
  Regards
  Wormi
  
• jkb Members

  February 2013

  Is there a way to look across types? My text could be in a div, a heading, etc.
• globalworming Moderators

  February 2013

  i guess not... you have to provide a type for the collect API. You could try something like
  _collect('/./', '/not found/');
  and please tell me if it worked
  
  alternatively you could write a recursive funtion which crawles through your DOM tree
  something like
  

  function logNotFoundOccurrences($element){     
      var $element = $element || document.body;     
      if ($element.hasChildNodes()) {       
        var $child = obj.firstChild;
        if (_getText($child).match("not found")){
            _log($child.id) 
        }
        while(child){         
            logNotFoundOccurrences($child);         
        }
        if ($child.nextSibling) {
          logNotFoundOccurrences($child.nextSibling);
        } else {
          return
        }
     }
  }
  
  // looks good but has not been tested ;)
  // some _condition may be missing here and there
  
• qaweb Members

  June 2013

  Thanks for your helpful reply here and in another _collect forum note.
  I'm a bit stymied by the syntax of the _collect function
  · · _collect(apiType, id, inEl)
  ... seems somewhat er uh succinct.
  1. what do the "forward slashes" "/" indicate? (that regex syntax will work??)
  2. what are [acceptable] "apiTypes"s - examples shows only "_link" which led me so far to successfully try similar HTML based items "_image" and "_div" and "_span".
  3. If I buy the PRO version is the manual a bit more detailed?
  ^_^
  (You can tell I'm enjoying this, close to success, because my questions are so picky *and* picayune!)
• globalworming Moderators

  June 2013

  Hi and thanks, I am glad to help
  
  3. You can get the Pro Docs here, but it does not provide many more information on _collect http://sahi.co.in/w/file_download/5/SahiPro_V4_2_Documentation.pdf
  
  2. The API types are everything Sahi recognizes like _link, _div, _span, _table, _cell ..... when you can access it with the Sahi Controller, you can collect it
  
  1. The forward slashes are part of the regular expression, have a look here http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp
  
  Regards
  Wormi