Jquery style css selectors

[Joe]

Hi

I am currently working on a Poc for the testing suite and testing framework.  I had a question about how to query the elements.

I want to query elements using a jquery style selector eg find me elements which have a class of x and are within elements of type p I tried to do this using the following :

HtmlControl cc = this.TestFramework.Find.AllControls<HtmlControl>().Where(c => c.CssClass == ".x, p").FirstOrDefault();

This returned nothing which is what I expected.

To find these kinds of elements at the moment I have to do something like the following:

Element element = this.TestFramework.Find.AllControls<HtmlDiv>().Where(c => c.CssClass == "formColWidth01").First().ChildNodes[0].ChildNodes[0];

Do you have any plans to support jquery style selection for elements any time in the future?

Regards

Joe

[Cody]

Hi Joe,

At this time we do not have plans to implement jQuery style selection. Instead we have our own Find Expressions that are equivalent, if not better than jQuery style selection. Using our find expression the equivalent code looks like this:

// Find all anchor tags having class=x
ReadOnlyCollection<Element> ElementList1 = ActiveBrowser.Find.AllByExpression("class=x", "tagname=a");
// OR
// Find all anchor tags having class=x
ReadOnlyCollection<HtmlAnchor> ElementList2 = ActiveBrowser.Find.AllByExpression<HtmlAnchor>("class=x");

All the best,
Cody
the Telerik team