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Bug? Webrat doesn't find field if label contains more than input

Trying to fill in a text input in cucumber using webrat with 

When I fill in "Last name" with "Doe"

given this HTML

<label>
    <span>Last name</span>
    <input class="title" id="user_last_name" name="user[last_name]" size="30" type="text" />
    <small>Some hint text here</small>
</label>

will throw an Webrat::NotFoundError error for the input element.

If I remove the < small > tag, the field is found just fine.

Is this a bug? Is there a workaround existing?

Solution

  • That's not so pretty HTML. It should be this:

    <p>
  <label for='user_last_name'>Last Name</label>
  <input id='user_last_name' [ other stuff]>
  <small>Some hint text here</small>
</p>

    Or in ActionView terms:

    <p>
  <%= f.label :last_name %>
  <%= f.text_field :last_name %>
  <small>Some hint text here</small>
</p>