Verifiying contents of page source (nightwatch.js)

Question

I'm having trouble verifying that a certain string exists in a page's source in nightwatch.js

Basically, I'm trying to replicate the verifyHtmlSource command from Selenium IDE.

Does anyone know how to verify that a certain string exists in a page's source in Nightwatch?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '16 at 11:53

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On way would be to call .containsText on the body:

.assert.containsText('body', 'my text')

answered Apr 13 '16 at 11:53

Florent B.

I need to check for something that is loaded via javascript and it doesn't appear anywhere on the page, only in the source. I know that the page's source is printed in the following example but is there a command that can be run against the result.value variabe to verify that particular string exists in it? `browser .url("http://www.google.com") .source(function (result){ // Source will be stored in result.value console.log(result.value); })` – Testerson Apr 13 '16 at 13:33
Your original post doesn't contain enough information to provide a better answer. So please update with a reproducible example. – Florent B. Apr 13 '16 at 13:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '16 at 15:28

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I was able to test for a string within a page's source with the following code:

.source(function (result){ _browser.verify.equal((result.value.indexOf('STRING IN PAGE SOURCE TO MATCH AGAINST') > -1), true) })

answered May 02 '16 at 15:28

Testerson

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