How copy a value that's text on cypress? - cypress

I've a selector assigned for a text value, I want to copy the value that's being displayed. How can I do this? The text value is saved in a span tag.
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cy.get('text-value'). and then what can I apply to do this action?

Saving the text of an element usually works like this:
cy.get('selector').invoke('text').as('variable_name')
Then you can call this variable in a later itinstance with
this.variable_name
for example you want to type the text you save in another field:
cy.get('other_selector').type(this.variable_name)
Just note that you can't put them inside the same it instance because of the asynchronous nature of Cypress

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How to set cursor at the end of line for text-box in nightwatch

I want to click at the end of text for text-box and write some text there. when I use .keys() it begins to append in middle
This might work in selenium Sendkeys but not in Nightwatch js as far as I know.
You can achieve what you are trying to do by doing the below steps.
Read the current value in the field
Append the text you want to add
Clear the content of the field
Keys can be used to set the full text into the field.
Did you try to use .setValue() ?
From the API link https://nightwatchjs.org/api/setValue.html:
setValue does not clear the existing value of the element. To do so,
use the clearValue() command.

XPATH - how to get the text if an element contains a certain class

JHow do I grab this text here?
I am trying to grab the text here based on that the href contains "#faq-default".
I tried this first of all but it doesn't grab the text, only the actual href name, which is pointless:
//a/#href[contains(., '#faq-default-2')]
There will be many of these hrefs, such as default-2, default-3 so I need to do some kind of contains query, I'd guess?
You are selecting the #href node value instead of the a element value. So try this instead:
//a[contains(#href, '#faq-default-2')]

How to apply formatting to content of a span

With CkEditor, When I create an A tag and later apply some custom formatting (like color text for instance), the resulting source looks like this:
<p><span style="color:#1abc9c;">some text</span></p>
As you can see, the formatting is around the text but INSIDE the A tag.
I have a personal plugin that outputs a SPAN tag with a specific class. In the wysiwyg editor, when I select the text and apply the same formatting, I get this:
<p><span style="color:#1abc9c;"><span class="command3d">Some text</span></span></p>
This time, the formatting is not simply around the text. It is applied around the SPAN tag.
How can I control this behaviour? I would like to get this result instead:
<p><span class="command3d"><span style="color:#1abc9c;">Some text</span></span></p>
Thanks
Unfortunately there is no ability to control the order of inline styles (based on span tags) inside editor's instance. The only sensible way to achieve desired result is to start with applying text color and then apply your custom style.
However there are two methods to convert output of the editor to the correct format. The first is to add custom handler to editor's data processor via toDataFormat event to check ancestors of span.command3d and swap them in places if necessary. However it's a little bit troublesome as you must traverse through all content, therefore it's easier way: add element callback to editor's filter. Example.

How to add default value to text field that cannot be changed (Ruby on Rails)

I am trying to create a formatted text field that will have its contents then parsed into a Ruby Date object. I think I have the logic for taking a value from a text field and turning that into a date, but I can't figure out the formatting part.
I want a text field that would already have separators in it by default, that the user could not overwrite. So I would want the text field to look like:
__/__/__
And when they tab into the field, the text they type fills in the spaces instead of overwriting everything in there.
Thanks!
not sure about the ruby but you can use jQuery like so:
http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/
jQuery(function($){
$("#key").mask("aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa");
});
and simply use <noscript> in your page header to make sure anyone's viewing your page has the javascript enabled.

Knockout set initial value of an input field where html is allowed

I have two input fields first name and last name.
Application was running really well.
Suddenly someone came in from Mars and input something like this in those input fields
*(~'##~>?<+!""*%$)!
for both first name and last name. Now don't ask me why he did this cause in Mars this is very common. You can try it on this fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/
This text then went into my database and now when i retrieve it it came back like this
*(~'##~>?<+!""*%$)
which is ok for me as its html and I can place it back into knockout and it gets populated as html as you can see in fiddle above. However this Mars guy then thought that on Earth this is not a nice name to be with so he tried to edit field.
The above fiddle is kind of that edit page which shows him old value at bottom and two fields at top. He does not know html so he thought we have changed his name in input fields however I need to know
When passing text to knockout to give initial value to an input field is it possible to tell it that consider this text as html so it renders properly in input field
The other way around is to send him to http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp and tell him about reserved HTML characters. This info has been stored in database (using Entity Framework simple person.fname and person.lname both with attribute AllowHTML) so on my fiddle i have just placed it in two variables and you can see how actual text boxes are different than html below. If i dont bind using Knockout then actual text is shown in these boxes and user can edit <>' signs without any problem.
Anyone with a solution before he leaves our planet. This can change alien life on our planet.
Update
If i go into this field and paste (~'##~>?<+!""*%$)" binding works fine and you can copy this and paste it into fiddle to see that. However its not taking that value from Javascript variable to knockout expects it to be a string and html special characters are not shown properly in input field.
We have done another test without Knockout and this text does get rendered within the field when you try to edit it its fine.
We have updated JSfiddle to work without JQuery and its the same result if you store it in a js variable and give not value to input field
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/3/
If we assign value to input field and just use jQuery to populate fullname then it works
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/4/
This last fiddle is a working example and we want Knockout to do what JQuery is doing.
I think the question then comes to how can this text be stored in javascript variable and placed into input field as html text so special characters appear unescaped. You can try unescape on jsfiddle that did not work for us.
Somewhere along the trip into (or maybe out of) your database, the value is being HTML-escaped. It's not Knockout itself that's doing it. You're going to need to track that location down, but you can't just disable it; you're going to have to replace it with something that sanitizes the result or otherwise you're opening yourself up to cross-site scripting attacks (any <script>s from external sources inserted into the input would have complete access to your data).
Any time you see the html: binding used, warning bells should go off in your head and you should VERY carefully to check to ensure that there's NO possibility of raw, unexamined user input making it into the string that gets displayed.
Ok here is what i did at the end
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/7/
I have done following:
I have added value attribute to input field and placed the input text as it came from server into it. Because I am using TextBoxFor in MVC it did that for me.
Before I apply knockout binding I have picked this value up using $('#kfname') and passed it to the actual binding so it used the value that came from server. Previously it was passed like (#Model.fname,#Model.lname)
I think what this did was allowed jQuery to pick up the value and assign it to binding instead of variable
ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel($("#kfname").val(), $("#klname").val()));
Hopefully this would help someone using knockout.

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