Javascript/Typescript How to remove/replace   from textContent()

[Andy]

You may have a situation where you are getting a value from a table cell for example that renders like:

Hello World

But in the DOM is:

<td>Hello&nbsp;World</td>

If you then were checking the textContent of such a cell to compare if it is equal to something:

if (locator.textContent() === 'Hello World') {
    // do something
}

That will not work, because the string will have the  's corresponding character code of 160, so you need to santize the value before comparing:

let cell = (await headerCells.nth(i).textContent());
           
cell = cell.trim().toLowerCase().replace(/\u00a0/g, ' ')

Now the string comparison will work.