[Question] Query by text with space

[maraisr]

Is there an ability to query for a selector that has extraneous space around it? I'm left to "test" some legacy Angular.js apps, which are notorious for this.

my await page.waitForSelector('"What does your Ford Focus need?"') is never resolving, and upon DEBUG mode it never resolves.

other elements I query do however work, so it could either be the dodgy space in there—or the fact that part of the "text" is nested in a span?

[mxschmitt]

Hi, it does not work because your text is in multiple elements. Seems like its related or the same feature requests as in #2089.

[maraisr]

Ouch! Is there a workaround for this atm? xpath something?

[JoelEinbinder]

Closing as a duplicate of #2089. But I agree that angular apps are a very good use case for this. cc @dgozman