How to get the html source of a page_object element?

Question

Imagine i have a div like (in Watir language):

@browser.div(:id, 'home_slideshow')

I need the html code inside to do some "magic regex" :). The way to get the div html code could be:

the_div_html = @browser.div(:id, 'home_slideshow').html

Ok. I'm using page_object gem and lets suppose i have the div as element, like:

div(:slide_show, :id => 'home_slideshow')

To get the html inside i can use:

the_div_html = slide_show_element.html

...but i get the DEPRECATION WARNING:

*** DEPRECATION WARNING
*** You are calling a method named attribute_value at home_page.rb:80:in `get_slide_code'.
*** This method does not exist in page-object so it is being passed to the driver.
*** This feature will be removed in the near future.

How can i get the html code using the page_object element? As some similar questions i made before, sure the answer is so easy, but i look into the Cheezy book, the whole stackoverflow and the page-object rubydoc info and i didn't found it. Can you please tell me the way?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

slide_show_element.html should return element HTML. Does it?

Deprecation warning just means page-object api does not support #html method yet. You should request it here: https://github.com/cheezy/page-object/issues?state=open

Answer 2

As a temporary workaround, you could access the watir-webdriver element directly using .element.

The following would give you the html without the depreciation warning:

slide_show_element.element.html

Answer 3

I'll be adding this method to the gem in the next release.