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Capybara steps to match stuff within any selector

Dominik Schöler
July 08, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

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Since Capybara 0.4.1 a within scope will only look at the first element that matches. We find this behavior to be impractical, but it is by design.

In order to perform a test or action in all matching elements, do not use within but prefer the attached "inside any" Cucumber steps like these:

When I follow "Foo" inside any "table"
Then I should see "Bar" inside any "li"
Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2011-07-08 17:22)