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• narayan Administrators

  June 2010

  Hi sterry1,
  
  There are various attributes by which Sahi identifies elements. The first default for most elements is id. But if you look at the Alternatives dropdown on the Controller, you will see the various other identifiers for the same element.
  
  If you want to prevent ids from being used as default, Sahi allows a way to ignore specific ids which may match a pattern.
  
  Open sahi/htdocs/spr/concat.js
  
  Search for isIgnorableId. You will see a function like this:
  

  Sahi.prototype.isIgnorableId = function(id){
      // zkoss, extjs, xilinus, gmail
      return id.match(/^z_/) || id.match(/^j_id/) || id.match(/^ext[-]gen/) || id.match(/^[:]/) || id.match(/^zk_comp_/);
      //  || id.match(/_[0-9]{10,}_/);
  };
  

  
  Add your own expression to the list of regular expressions. Eg. if you want to ignore ids which start with mx, then add id.match(/^mx/) so that your function now looks like:
  

  Sahi.prototype.isIgnorableId = function(id){
      // zkoss, extjs, xilinus, gmail
      return id.match(/^z_/) || id.match(/^j_id/) || id.match(/^ext[-]gen/) || id.match(/^[:]/) || id.match(/^zk_comp_/) || id.match(/^mx/);
      //  || id.match(/_[0-9]{10,}_/);
  };
  

  
  Restart Sahi, clear browser cache and Sahi will ignore ids which start with mx.
  
  Regards,
  Narayan
• sterry1 Members

  June 2010

  thanks narayan, your answer was most helpful. Sahi is very impressive. I have been using Selenium and WebDriver for some time now to do Web testing on our enterprise applications but Sahi promises to make this work a breeze.
• narayan Administrators

  June 2010

  Thanks for the appreciation