Using Nightwatch, how do you get the DOM element, and it's attributes from the ELEMENT entity?

Question

I've noticed some strange behavior where elements that are present in the view are not being located by nightwatch. In order to see exactly what is visible, I'd like to iterate through the view that nightwatch has opened, and get a list of every element that it can locate, and get the relevant information from that result about what those elements are. I've been able to 'find' all the elements with the following:

 browser.elements('css selector', 'div', function (elements) {
   elements.value.forEach(function(element){
     console.log('result', element)
   })
 })

The catch is that the result is a series of these: { ELEMENT: '0.9107972990792419-3' }

How do I get the class, and all the other relevant information about the element from the nightwatch ELEMENT?

Thanks!

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '17 at 22:36

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You will want to use .elementIdAttribute for this.

browser.elements('css selector', 'div', function(elements) {
  elements.value.forEach(function(element){
    browser.elementIdAttribute(element.ELEMENT, 'class', function(attribute) {
      console.log(attribute.value);
    });
  });
});

answered Nov 30 '17 at 22:36

tehbeardedone

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element.ELEMENT gives 'undefined'. – Dhruv Bhatnagar Dec 07 '21 at 19:57
Maybe now it does. This was valid back in 2017 when I posted the answer. – tehbeardedone Dec 09 '21 at 17:52
okay! do you know any way to do it now? – Dhruv Bhatnagar Dec 10 '21 at 07:54
Sorry, I haven't been using nightwatch in several years. I'm not up to date on any new changes. – tehbeardedone Dec 22 '21 at 21:12

Using Nightwatch, how do you get the DOM element, and it's attributes from the ELEMENT entity?

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