Ability to verify order?

[drsharp]

Hello!

Is there any way to verify order? For example, if I have:

<div><span>one</span><span>two</span></div>

and test it with:

output.should have_tag(:div) do
  with_tag(:span, :text => 'one')
  with_tag(:span, :text => 'two')
end

it passes. But if I then change it to:

<div><span>two</span><span>one</span></div>

it still passes.

I can't see a way to verify that the first span MUST come before the second in the HTML. Any thoughts?

[kucaahbe]

not yet, but this is "should be" feature, I'm going to add it in near future

[drsharp]

kucaahbe: you might look at how this gem does ordering: https://github.com/mbklein/equivalent-xml

I'd love rspec-html-matchers to include something similar... a tag like:

:element_order => true

Then, my above test could be something like:

output.should have_tag(:div), :element_order => true do
  with_tag(:span, :text => 'one')
  with_tag(:span, :text => 'two')
end

and that would fail if my output text was:

<div><span>two</span><span>one</span></div>

:-)

[randoum]

I'll close this old issue, as there is no sorting option. Anyone's welcome to open a PR on this. Thanks