Changeset 2894

Timestamp:

11/06/05 13:59:07 (3 years ago)

Author:

minam

Message:

Add documentation to assert_tag indicating that it only works with well-formed XHTML

Files:

• trunk/actionpack/CHANGELOG (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/actionpack/CHANGELOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-*SVN*
+
+* Add documentation to assert_tag indicating that it only works with well-formed XHTML #1937, #2570 [Jamis Buck]
-
-* Added action_pack.rb stub so that ActionPack::Version loads properly [Sam Stephenson]

trunk/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb

@@ -258 +258 @@
-      #              :descendant => { :tag => "span",
-      #                               :child => /hello world/ }
+      #
+      # <strong>Please note</strong: #assert_tag and #assert_no_tag only work
+      # with well-formed XHTML. They recognize a few tags as implicitly self-closing
+      # (like br and hr and such) but will not work correctly with tags
+      # that allow optional closing tags (p, li, td). <em>You must explicitly
+      # close all of your tags to use these assertions.</em>
-      def assert_tag(*opts)
-        clean_backtrace do