rspec users - Mar 2012 - Testing selector order

Could someone point me to a reference that explains how I would test
the order of elements on an HTML page?

For example, in RSpec I would like to verify that the content of one
<p> element appears before the content of another.

response.should have_selector("p", :content => "Should appear
first")
response.should have_selector("p", :content => "Should appear
second")

The two lines above test that the 2 contents appear, but I don''t know
how to test that the first content appears before the second.

Thanks

Mike

On 1 March 2012 16:43, Mike Kim <fourcatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone point me to a reference that explains how I would test
> the order of elements on an HTML page?
>
> For example, in RSpec I would like to verify that the content of one
> <p> element appears before the content of another.
>
> response.should have_selector("p", :content => "Should
appear first")
> response.should have_selector("p", :content => "Should
appear second")
>
> The two lines above test that the 2 contents appear, but I don''t
know
> how to test that the first content appears before the second.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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Have a look at sibling in x-path specification to do it correctly. As a
hack Capybara''s all method in practice will return the paragraphs in
order
(but this isn''t guaranteed by specification).

HTH

Andrew

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Andrew Premdas
blog.andrew.premdas.org
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