Comments on: Selenium gotcha – selenium.GetHtmlSource() returns processed HTML

By: Demelza

Demelza — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:39:49 +0000

Stands back from the keyboard in aamezenmt! Thanks!

By: sky

sky — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:09:21 +0000

You might also notice that some browsers, FF in particular, strip comments from javascript.

This behavior bit me in the rear a few years ago while writing some javascript code generation libraries that used comments as meta data.

By: mrdavidlaing

mrdavidlaing — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:15:15 +0000

@Naveet,

Best I can suggest is to do multiple searches – once for tag (SUREHITS), then again for first attribute (sid=”navneet…) and again for next attribute etc.

By: navneet

navneet — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:40:01 +0000

Firefox 3.5.7 and IE 7
1) Using view source mannualy (right click –> view source)
Orignal on Firefox :
Orignal on IE :

After selenium.GetHtmlSource();
In Firefox :
IN IE :

By: navneet

navneet — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:38:01 +0000

sorry for previous post it was not contain example which i put in < >

By: navneet

navneet — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:10:11 +0000

Hi David,
Thanks for this post.
I have one issue with text which i am checking through selenium.GetHtmlSource();
Application scenario:
-We are doing automation testing for our sites.
-When we submit page after that on new page we are checking for pixel entries.
like this ” or tags
-so i want to detect that using selenium.GetHtmlSource();

Firefox 3.5.7 and IE 7
1) Using view source mannualy (right click –> view source)
Orignal on Firefox :
Orignal on IE :

After selenium.GetHtmlSource();
In Firefox :
IN IE :

Upper Lower case and double quote is fine to handle.
But how to handle attribute sequence on .

Thanks,
Navneet