How to verify text order/position?

Question

How can a protractor test verify the location and order of text on page? Our application generates schedules that is comprised of divs in specific orders depending on the date/time and type of activity.

I know the text itself can be verified but am not sure how to verify that they are in the correct order.

Ex: A needs to appear before B if C does not exist

Answer 1

This is actually pretty convenient to do by calling getText() on an array of elements - this would produce an array of texts which, what important, is ordered the same way as elements are ordered:

var divs = $$(".someCommonDivClass");

expect(divs.getText()).toEqual(["first text", "second text", "third text"]);