by.model should not be restricted to 'input' elements

[juliemr]

At the moment, by.model matches input elements with ng-model, but nothing else using ng-model. It makes more sense semantically to match anything. The potential downside is that if you have an input and (e.g.) select with the same model, by.model becomes ambiguous. Is this an important distinction for anyone?

[gingermusketeer]

Is there a way to narrow the scope of the selector? I seem to recall using from karma which would select a subset of the dom for the input selectors to match within.

[juliemr]

Yes - you can chain with

element(by.id('foo')).findElement(by.model('bar'));

[manojkumarvizury]

element(by.model('mymodel')).getText() for a textarea returns empty string whereas
element(by.model('mymodel')).getAttribute('value') returns the text inside a textarea.
why is that?