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Locating child nodes of WebElements in selenium.
We can locate child nodes of web elements with Selenium webdriver. First of all we need to identify the parent element with help of any of the locators like id, class, name, xpath or css. Then we have to identify the children with the findElements(By.xpath()) method.
We can identify the child nodes from the parent, by localizing it with the parent and then passing ( ./child::*) as a parameter to the findElements(By.xpath())
Syntax−
parent.findElements(By.xpath("./child::*"))
Let us identify the text of the child nodes of ul node in below html code−
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 ChildNodes{
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 t=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//ul[@class='toc chapters']"));
//identify child nodes with ./child::* expression in xpath
List<WebElement> c = t.findElements(By.xpath("./child::*"));
// iterate child nodes
for ( WebElement i : c ) {
//getText() to get text for child nodes
System.out.println(i.getText());}
driver.close();
}
}Output
Updated on: 18-Sep-2020
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