Testcafe: Unable to find element by exact matching inner text

[Dmitry-Ostashev]

Are you requesting a feature or reporting a bug?

feature

What is the current behavior?

Selector.withText(text) method creates a selector that filters a matching set by a containing the specified text.

What is the expected behavior?

Sometimes it is necessary to find element by exact matching inner text

How would you reproduce the current behavior (if this is a bug)?

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[AndreyBelym]

Hello, Dmitry! I guess, you want something likeSelector('*').withText(theText). It matches every element on the page, and then filters it with the specified text.

[Dmitry-Ostashev]

I need a strong match, that means "equal", not "contains".

For example, a have two divs "Object 1" and "Object 11". I want to find only "Object 1", but with .withText('Object 1') I will get both these divs.

I have solved this problem by the following approach:

`var innerTextEquals = ClientFunction((element, text) => {
return $.trim(element.innerText) === $.trim(text);
});

//...
Selector('.dx-navigation-item').filter((node, idx) => {
return innerTextEquals(node, itemCaption)
}, { innerTextEquals, itemCaption });`

[inikulin]

I guess it would be nice to have this feature. As a temporary workaround you can represent your text as regexp and set boundaries:

import escapeRegExp from 'lodash/escapeRegExp';

function getWholeTextRe(text) {
    return new RegExp(`^${escapeRegExp(text)}$`);
}

// use it as t.expect(smthg).contains(getWholeTextRe('myText'));
// or Selector('div').withText(getWholeTextRe('myText'))

[inikulin]

We need to figure out API for that. How about Selector.withWholeText()? cc @DevExpress/testcafe @VasilyStrelyaev

[VasilyStrelyaev]

what about withTextStrictly or withStrictText

[helen-dikareva]

May be withExactText

[qaiser110]

May be better to change withText to do exact search by default

and add a new method withTextContains or withTextIncludes or withPartialText

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

I wouldn't like to make a breaking change here. It can break a lot of existing tests. The withText method can take a regexp so it's quite flexible for any cases. So I'd like to leave it as is

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

closed in #2124

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