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Userflow Updates

Ignore element text

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Sebastian Seilund

September 24, 2019

It's now easier to select elements containing dynamic text (e.g. user-chosen names) in your web app.

In the example below, we're trying to select the first row in the table, which contains a dynamic project name. Our flow should not depend on the exact name since it will be different for other users. Notice in the lower-left corner how Userflow, by default, picks the name of the project:

With text

If instead, we click the Settings (cog) icon, check "Ignore element text" and point to the element again, then we get this:

Without text

Now Userflow discards the element's text and uses the best CSS selector it can find for it.

2 min 33 sec. read

blog single image
Userflow Updates

Ignore element text

blog author
Sebastian Seilund

September 24, 2019

It's now easier to select elements containing dynamic text (e.g. user-chosen names) in your web app.

In the example below, we're trying to select the first row in the table, which contains a dynamic project name. Our flow should not depend on the exact name since it will be different for other users. Notice in the lower-left corner how Userflow, by default, picks the name of the project:

With text

If instead, we click the Settings (cog) icon, check "Ignore element text" and point to the element again, then we get this:

Without text

Now Userflow discards the element's text and uses the best CSS selector it can find for it.

2 min 33 sec. read

It's now easier to select elements containing dynamic text (e.g. user-chosen names) in your web app.

In the example below, we're trying to select the first row in the table, which contains a dynamic project name. Our flow should not depend on the exact name since it will be different for other users. Notice in the lower-left corner how Userflow, by default, picks the name of the project:

With text

If instead, we click the Settings (cog) icon, check "Ignore element text" and point to the element again, then we get this:

Without text

Now Userflow discards the element's text and uses the best CSS selector it can find for it.

About the author

Co-Founder of Userflow

Sebastian Seilund is the co-founder and former CEO of Userflow, where he built one of the leading user onboarding platforms for SaaS companies. With experience as a software engineer at Google and having founded multiple successful software companies, including Denmark's first user-friendly accounting software, Sebastian brings deep technical expertise to discussions about product-led growth and user experience.

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