Unable to target element using protractor's binding locator - javascript

<div class="apiRequestDisplay ng-scope">
<pre class="ng-binding">GET</pre>
<pre class="ng-binding">v1/securityprofiles/{securityProfileID} </pre>
</div>
I need to target the text that says v1/securityprofiles/{securityProfileID}. I inspected the element on the webpage to obtain the HTML at the top. As you can see it doesn't show ng-bind = to anything it just shows it as part of a class.
I thought that was a little weird but I used inspect Angular Scope (firefox add-on) to verify the binding to be docsEndpoint.Endpoint.HttpVerb however when I put it into the protractor syntax:
var route1 = element(by.binding('docsEndpoint.Endpoint.UriTemplate'));
expect(route1).toBe('v1/securityprofiles/{securityProfileID}');
and run it nothing happens. What am I missing?
I know I can probably select it using CSS selectors and I probably will if I have to but I really want to know why it isn't working.

You should not expect an element itself, get it's text via getText() and use toEqual():
expect(route1.getText()).toEqual('v1/securityprofiles/{securityProfileID}');

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need to add contentEditable=false to p tag inside CKEditor

i need inside my CKEditor some boilerplate verbiage that is not editable, then the rest of the my string information. I concatenate the boilerplate verbiage [which is in a p tag], to a string variable that my CKEditor displays inside a certain div. By the time the verbiage, here:
<p id='abc' contentEditable='false'>verbiage</p>
... and the string information is displayed on the page, they are deep inside a number of nested tags - within a body with multiple classes. So both the verbiage, which is now in only a p tag with no attributes[they got stripped out], is nested way inside the original body tag [the first body tag, way up in the page] with lots and lots of divs, then finally comes an iframe, then ... the verbiage and string are like this:
<body contenteditable="true" class="cke_editable cke_editable_themed cke_contents_ltr cke_show_borders" spellcheck="false">
<p>boilerplate verbiage</p>
...then the rest of the information is displayed in the editor, inside various spans, etc. i need to make the boilerplate verbiage readonly, contentEditable='false'. Yet everything I try both from the console in Chrome, and in code.... nothing changes that boilerplate verbiage tag. i have tried various things, including these - perhaps you can see where I need to tweak something; and i hope this will show you things i have tried and that i am run out of options so far:
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").first().contentEditable='false';
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").attr("readonly", "1");
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders p:first-child").contentEditable='false';
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").find( "p" ).contentEditable='false';
jQuery("iframe", ".cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").contents().find("p").contentEditable='false';
jQuery("iframe", "body .cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").contents().find("p").contentEditable='false';
var editor= jQuery("body", ".cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders");
editor.val(editor.val().replace(/<p>/gi, "<p class='tiny_p'>"))
var editor= jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders");
editor.val(editor.val().replace(/<p>/gi, "<p class='tiny_p'>"))
yet if i hard code in the Chrome browser, contenteditable="false",
it works perfectly. So, how can i access that p tag and assign it this attribute?
It really depends on moment and how you want to access, one option to access directly from separate script.
CKEDITOR.instances[YOUR_INSTANCE].window.$.document.getElementById("your_p_tag")
Note, that it should be done after CKEDITOR initilized
UPDATE:
CKEDITOR.instances[YOUR_INSTANCE].window.$.document.body.firstChild

Change getElementsByClassName()[i] field

I'm doing kinda learning by doing JavaScript right know, but I have a problem, where I can not find the solution on stackoverflow. I want to replace a String on a webpage, where I just have the class, but not the ID.
document.getElementsByClassName('ep_price')[0]="FOO"
This should change the defined elemet to FOO, but it does not do that and I have no idea why not...
I have read that I should use .value, but this var is not even defined...
See Screenshot of my Chrome console below:
You need to use .textContent property if you intended to change the text.
document.getElementsByClassName('ep_price')[0].textContent ="FOO"

Javascript - Execute HTML/Angular ng-include

I'm using AngularJS to design a small app for searching. I have a div that's currently empty, and after running a function, for it to replace it with a div that has ng-include. The div replaces just fine, but ng-include doesn't load up.
I'm currently running the following in console for testing to see get it running. How would I go about getting this to work? Any help is appreciated!
document.getElementById("resultsDiv").innerHTML = '<div ng-include="" src=" \'sr.html\' "></div>';
read about angularjs $compile function
I don't know why you need to make this JavaScript-call, but its definitely no the 'angular-way'. If you need to conditionally include html, i would recommend using ng-if, ng-hide, ng-show or even ng-switch.
You could do something like this:
// somewhere in your controller
$scope.triggerSomeInclude = true;
// in your template
<div ng-if="triggerSomeInclude">
<div ng-include ="'someFile.html'"></div>
</div>
Another approach would be using a directive. They are the only place, where selecting an element directly could make sense (although even there it usually doesn't to select an element via id). But as I said, it's hard to stay what the best method would be, as I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve.
Although you're not using jQuery, what you're trying to do looks very jQueryesque (awful word) as you're selecting an element directly seemingly totally detached from the $digest and $compile-cycles of angular, so I also would recommend to read this answer:
"Thinking in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?
In the end, the method I used was templating example used for ngInclude.
http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngInclude
Inside my controller, for example, by default it would set the following:
$scope.mainDivTemplate = {url: 'partials/test1.html'}
If I wanted to switch it to something else, I'd call a function that would look a little something like this.
$scope.loadHome = ->
$scope.mainDivTemplate = {url: 'partials/home.html'}
$scope.$apply()

setting content between div tags using javascript

I'm trying to set some content in between some div tags on a JSP page using javascript.
currently the div tag on the JSP page looks like this:
<div id="successAndErrorMessages"></div>
I want to fill the content in those div tags using some javascript method so that it will look like so:
<div id="successAndErrorMessages"><div class="portlet-msg-error">This is an error message</div></div>
I know you can go like this:
document.getElementById("successAndErrorMessages").value="someContent";
But that just changes the value of the 'value' attribute. It doesn't fill in content between those div tags. Anyone out there that can point me in the right direction?
Try the following:
document.getElementById("successAndErrorMessages").innerHTML="someContent";
msdn link for detail : innerHTML Property
See Creating and modifying HTML at what used to be called the Web Standards Curriculum.
Use the createElement, createTextNode and appendChild methods.
If the number of your messages is limited then the following may help. I used jQuery for the following example, but it works with plain js too.
The innerHtml property did not work for me. So I experimented with ...
<div id=successAndErrorMessages-1>100% OK</div>
<div id=successAndErrorMessages-2>This is an error mssg!</div>
and toggled one of the two on/off ...
$("#successAndErrorMessages-1").css('display', 'none')
$("#successAndErrorMessages-2").css('display', '')
For some reason I had to fiddle around with the ordering before it worked in all types of browsers.

Invoking jQuery function without an element

So, I use jQuery quite extensively and I am well aware of the "right" way to do the below, but there are times where I want to solve it in a more generic way. I'll explain.
So, I may have a link, like this: <a href='menu' class='popup'>Show menu</a>. Now, I have a jQuery function that fires on click for all a.popup that takes the href-attribute and shows the <div id='menu'></div> item (in this case). It also handles URL's if it can't find a DOM item with that ID.
No problem here. But, there are times when I don't have the same control over the coe where I can create a selectable target that way. Either because the code isn't created by me or because it is created through a chain of function that would all need a huge ovrhaul which I won't do.
So, from time to time, I would like to have this code:
Show menu
This would be in a case where I can only submit the label and the HREF for a link. No class, no nothing.
Problem here is that the function popup() has no idea about what element invoked it, and in most cases that's not a problem for me, since I only need to know where the mouse cursor was upon invokation.
But in some cases, I use someone elses jQuery functions, like qTip or something else. so I still want to fire off qTip(); when clicking a link that runs this JS function, but what do I attach it to to make it show? I can't just runt $().qTip(); because that implies $(this) and "this" is undefined inside the function.
So how do I do it? Any ideas?
Is there anyway you change the javascript method to javascript:popup('menu', this);? I've used this method successfully many times.
Instead of referring to "this" try referring to $('a:focus') to refer to the link that was clicked.
Here's a quick and, as #Crescent Fresh would add, dirty (☺) sample:
<body>
<p>Show popup()</p>
<div id="menu" style="display:none">Today's menu</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function popup(elm) {
$('#' + elm).show();
alert( $('a:focus').text() )
}
</script>
</body>
I tried just ":focus" but IE7 returned too much content. I tested this in FF 3.6.3, IE7, Chrome 4.1.249.1064 (all on Windows) and it seems OK, but I see now (when I was just about to hit "Post Your Answer") this relies on the browser's native support for querySelectorAll - see this jQuery Forum post ":focus selector filter?" and the jQuery.expr entry in the jQuery Source Viewer (where it appears Paul's idea was not implemented).
How about
Show menu
Once you get the event object you can virtually do anything to it.

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