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grant_volker_2
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13 years ago

How to handle whitespace changes within text with contentText and Excel data driver

Hi, I have experienced some test failures where double white space in between text and at the end of sentences exists. An Excel data driver is being used with text copied from the conten...
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jeffrey_crowley
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12 years ago
I'm having a similar issue... IE, Chrome, and FF don't all report the same characters from innerText. Some will have two spaces, others have one space, and sometimes I see <LF>s in the text (which is indistinguishable from whitespace in the log viewer. I really don't want to have to process the text that I get from the page or have an expected result from each browser but I'm at a loss what to do now. Anyone have any ideas?