Capybara: Capybara can't find element head

Created on 16 Apr 2013 · 3Comments · Source: teamcapybara/capybara

Not sure if I am doing something wrong, but It seems that capybara can't find the element 'head'

(rdb:1)  find(:xpath, '//body')
#<Capybara::Element tag="body" path="/html/body">
(rdb:1)  find(:xpath, '//head')
*** Capybara::ElementNotFound Exception: Unable to find xpath "//head"

To make sure, I tried to bring the html down to this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
  </head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

I am using capybara 2.1.0

Source

gaganawhad

Most helpful comment

The head element is usually invisible, the default has changed in Capybara 2.1.0 to by default not find hidden elements, you need to pass :visible => false or set Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements = false.