Is it possible to identify an element only knowing part of its name?

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I'm trying to identify <div> elements with ids that are dynamically generated. I want to be able to grab the element using the text identifier.

I don't want to have to know what the exact name is. For example, if there was a div tag containing "This is a div text", I would want to grab that with @browser.div(:text => 'div text').

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '13 at 21:08

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You can use regular expressions to do partial matching of an element's property.

For example, in your situation, you can do:

@browser.div(:text => /div text/)

answered Nov 27 '13 at 21:08

Justin Ko

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What if I wanted to pass a variable into the regex? `def find_portlet (app_name) @browser.div(:text => /app_name/) end` – Adam6806 Nov 27 '13 at 21:21
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Then you could do `@browser.div(:text => /#{app_name}/)` – Justin Ko Nov 27 '13 at 21:35
Thanks! I had just found that. Regex is quite new to me. – Adam6806 Nov 27 '13 at 21:43

Is it possible to identify an element only knowing part of its name?

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