Capybara: Clicking elements that are not links or buttons.

[jarl-dk]

I have a situation where I must click a span elements, which makes parts of the DOM vissible (that I must verify). A javascript click eventhandler makes the part of the DOM vissble. But when using capybaras click_on it seems that it only searches through a and button elements. So triggering this javascript click eventhandler seems impossible.

[diabolo]

Have you tried using find, e.g.

find('#id_of_element').click

[jarl-dk]

Thanks a lot. that was a way around it... I use

page.find(:xpath,"//*[text()='#{click_text}']").click

where click_text is the human readable text.

[adiel]

You should consider using normalize-space() rather than text() - this is what Capybara (XPath) uses internally for finding nodes by text - as the actual text of your html nodes often will contain trailing and following whitespace, and also multiple whitespace between words, which is normalized by the browser for display.

[jarl-dk]

Thanks for the tip.

2013/11/28 Adrian Longley [email protected]

You should consider using normalize-space() rather than text() - this is
what Capybara (XPath) uses internally for finding nodes by text - as the
actual text of your html nodes often will contain trailing and following
whitespace, and also multiple whitespace between words, which is normalized
by the browser for display.

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[verma-rajatk]

page.find_all(:xpath, "//*[normalize-space(text())='#{link_text}']").first.click