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Inconsistent assert behavior for text
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Hello!
While experimenting with codecept I noticed inconsistent behaviors between the testing methods.
Here are two tests:
- The first contains spans that have numbers in them. The asserts are generally consistent (they add spaces to each span) except grabTextFrom, which adds \n.
- The second is much more problematic. In this one, the HTML also contains spans, but with bootstrap styles on the spans. We can see that:
- I.see adds spaces
- I.waitForText does not
- nor does I.grabTextFrom
- BUT when we add .at(1) to the locator, it changes the behavior of waitForText().
The way the text is asserted changes depending on:
- the CSS of the page
- the assertion method used
- the selector
- the whitespaces in the HTML
```ts
import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { resolve } from "node:path";
Feature("Spans");
Scenario("text line returns", async ({ I }) => {
const file = `${resolve(process.cwd(), "examples", "returns.html")}`;
writeFileSync(file, `
1
2
3
`);
I.amOnPage(`file://${file}`);
const appLocator = locate("#app");
I.see("1 2 3", appLocator);
I.waitForText("1 2 3", 1, appLocator);
const text = await I.grabTextFrom(appLocator);
I.expect(text).toEqual("\n 1\n 2\n 3\n ");
I.see("1 2 3", appLocator.at(1));
I.waitForText("1 2 3", 1, appLocator.at(1));
const text2 = await I.grabTextFrom(appLocator.at(1));
I.expect(text2).toEqual("\n 1\n 2\n 3\n ");
});
Scenario("test boostrap styles", async ({ I }) => {
const file = `${resolve(process.cwd(), "examples", "bootstrap.html")}`;
writeFileSync(file, `
`);
I.amOnPage(`file://${file}`);
const appLocator = locate("#app");
I.see("0 . 8 8 6 7 8", appLocator);
I.waitForText("0.88678", 1, appLocator);
const text = await I.grabTextFrom(appLocator);
I.expect(text).toEqual("0.88678");
I.see("0 . 8 8 6 7 8", appLocator.at(1));
// IDK what it expects... it just does not work the same with .at(1)!!!!
// I.waitForText("0.88678", 1, appLocator.at(1));
const text2 = await I.grabTextFrom(appLocator.at(1));
I.expect(text2).toEqual("0.88678");
});
```
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