Hi All,

VerifyText does not work in the most intuitive way (from my non-techie point of view). It is called verifyText not verifyHTML but it actually seems to do the latter.

This is a particular problem for nbsp e.g. my page appears to say "Confirm Password" but the HTML is actually "Confirm Password:".

If I put <verifyText text="Confirm Password:"/> it fails but if I put the horrible <verifyText text="Confirm&nbsp;Password:"/> it also fails! With the result showing: <parameter name="taskName" value="verifyText"/> <parameter name="text" value="ConfirmPassword:"/> <result> <failed duration="15"/> </result>

1) Is there a workaround that will let me handle nbsp somehow, perhaps similar to the way I have to handle strings of text that have a word bolded where I would put for example <verifyText text="&lt;b&gt;Check:&lt;/b&gt; have you filled in all sections marked"/>?

2) Can anything be done to improve this, because verifyText is really the key validation tool for beginners / non-techie users and this behaviour is at best confusing. Hopefully I've just missed something (see note re web site below). I think the ideal solution is for verifyText to strip out all tags from the target and to replace all nbsp with a simple space before comparison. I believe WebTest uses HTMLUnit which uses NekoHTML to convert the html to xml, so I guess it would have to hook in here or just after this process as the whole page would need to be converted into a true text version if verifyText was to work the way I think it should...?

Any advice would be most appreciated.

regards, john