Checking text formatting

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Hi everybody.

Sorry for the newbie question, but I didn’t managed to find a way to check if a textbox with html formatting options (like the one I’m writing this post, for istance) is working properly…

For example, I would like to check if pressiong the “bold” button, the written text is… well, bold :slight_smile:

Thanks
in advance

J.

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Broadly speaking, you have two options:

  1. Visual Testing in Katalon Studio

  2. and testing the rendered HTML output from the editing component (be it a textarea, element with contenteditable, whatever)

There are a lot of fine details to discuss regarding the latter. But without more information (see next link) it’s almost impossible to advise:

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Hi Russ_Thomas

Thank you for your suggestions :slight_smile:
I didn’t meant to sound worried or in an hurry, I was just asking for a direction to be pointed at and that the reason I wasn’t too much specific… I just needed to know if it was technically possible to do what I needed or not, that’s it!

Thank you very much for your help.

Bests

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It’s certainly possible, it just depends on how the tool actually manipulates the DOM behind the scenes. If we take a look at part of @Russ_Thomas’s post:

He has the word “rendered” italicized. If you inspect the HTML for the word:

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you can see that the word is wrapped in an <em> tag.

While your particular editing widgets might behave differently, you should still be able to test this by looking at the HTML directly (Russ’s second option).

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Thank you both