Does watir's browser.text.include? count text inside invisible divs? If so, how to search only for visible text?

Question

Does watir's browser.text.include? count text inside invisible divs? If so, how to search only for visible text?

I put all the instructions into the html from the beginning and use jQuery to hide and unhide the relevant parts.

How can I use watir's waiter to wait for only text that is visible?

My problem is, that the waiter always returns true, even before I have made visible a certain text.

Answer 1

Don't use Watir's text method. It is very quick and dirty, and has lots of misgivings, many not even related to this issue about visible text. Solid Watir test developers will avoid it. I almost never use it myself, and only when I am doing something extremely quick and dirty. Also, it is implemented differently with different browsers.

Instead you should access the text you care about in terms of the actual element that it is in. You should reference the div or whatever.