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what does _byText do?

keatskeats Members
edited November -1 in Sahi - Open Source
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.
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  • keatskeats Members
    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.
  • narayannarayan Administrators
    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.
  • keatskeats Members
    Ok. So can i access any html element by its class name?
  • narayannarayan Administrators
    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.
  • keatskeats Members
    Yes Narayan, It works. I tried to click a button by accessing the class and it works perfectly fine.
    _click(_byClassName("sysButn","input"));

    Thanks.
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