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Find element by text (content)

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Is there a built-in locator to find an element by its html content?

This is for example the xpath expression to locate any element containing the string “You have successfully signed up!”

by.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'You have successfully signed up!')]");

I wonder if there is a nicer DSL for this, e.g.

by.text('You have successfully signed up!');

Or see an example of how to write this with Protractor.By.addLocator

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elhigucommented, Sep 30, 2015

I was mislead by this issue… currently correct answer seems to be:

var dog = element(by.cssContainingText('.pet', 'Dog'));

https://angular.github.io/protractor/#/api?view=ProtractorBy.prototype.cssContainingText

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rolobmcommented, Apr 27, 2017

Hi guys, somebody knows how declare locators for this case:

Phone_assign_43534

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