Regexp fails. Selenium Plugin for Firefox.

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 8172

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use the selenium plugin for Firefox and start recording
2. Choose a selectable item in a multi select box. Make sure it has at least two words
with a space in between. e.g: 'test 1'
3. Save the script as a python 'WebDriver' script
4. Now run the python test script and it will fail.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected it to select the multi select item with no problem, but instead it selects
nothing.

Selenium version: 2.41.0
OS: Debian 7
Browser: Firefox
Browser version: 31.2.0


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I have attached two files, 'test.py' and 'test1.py'. so do:

python test.py

then:

python test1.py

to see the problem. 'test.py' will fail when it tests the multi select widget at http://christopherbayliss.com.au/test/
'test1.py' will work fine. Run vimdiff, or something similar, to see what the difference
is.

Reported by christopher.j.bayliss on 2014-11-17 00:48:49

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- _Attachment: [test.py](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/selenium/issue-8172/comment-0/test.py)_ - _Attachment: [test1.py](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/selenium/issue-8172/comment-0/test1.py)_

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2014-11-17 06:33:13

• Labels added: Component-IDE, Lang-Python

[lukeis]

I have just confirmed that selenium version 2.44.0 has the same problem.

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ERROR: test_1 (__main__.Test1)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Downloads/test.py", line 21, in test_1
    Select(driver.find_element_by_id("test_action")).select_by_visible_text("regexp:Test\\sProjects")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/support/select.py",
line 136, in select_by_visible_text
    raise NoSuchElementException("Could not locate element with visible text: %s" %
text)
NoSuchElementException: Message: Could not locate element with visible text: regexp:Test\sProjects


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Ran 1 test in 40.184s

FAILED (errors=1)

Reported by christopher.j.bayliss on 2014-11-18 06:23:19

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 17:47:30

• Labels added: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit