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How do I get a parent HTML Tag with Selenium WebDriver using Java?
We can get a parent HTML tag with Selenium webdriver. First of all we need to identify the child element with help of any of the locators like id, class, name, xpath or css. Then we have to identify the parent with the findElement(By.xpath()) method.
We can identify the parent from the child, by localizing it with the child and then passing (parent::*) as a parameter to the findElement(By.xpath()). Next to get the tagname of the parent, we have to use the getTagName() method.
Syntax
child.findElement(By.xpath("parent::*"));Let us identify tagname of parent of child element li in below html code−
The tagname of the parent should be ul.
Example
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class ParentTagname{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/about/about_careers.htm");
// identify element
WebElement p=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[@class='heading']"));
//identify parent from child element
WebElement t= p.findElement(By.xpath("parent::*"));
//getTagName() to get parent element tag
System.out.println("Parent tagname: " + t.getTagName());
driver.close();
}
}Output
Updated on: 18-Sep-2020
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