How to find specific lines in a table using Selenium?

Question

Here is an example code:

<div id="productOrderContainer">
  <table class="table gradient myPage">

So this table being in productOrderContainer has several columns and depending on several things will have several rows which all have several columns. An example is:

What I want to do is to for example get the first row of this table. ( rows have id's such as: <td rowspan="1"> ) And then again for example in this rowspan look for a specific value in a specific <div>

So in psudo-code what I want to say is:

Get me the table, get me the n'th row, get me the value in <div id='something'>

Pinch

Answer 1

you can try following

int index = 0;
WebElement baseTable = driver.findElement(By.className("table gradient myPage"));
List<WebElement> tableRows = baseTable.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
tableRows.get(index).getText();

You can also iterate over tablerows to perform any function you want.

Discount

That doesn't look right at all. WebDriver.findElement(By.className("")) will locate every element in the document, not the table the OP is looking for. So the next line will collect all the <TR>s in the entire document, not in the specific table. – Squaw

My Mistake... the By.className wasn't supposed to be empty. copy paste error. Thanks @RossPatterson – Discount

@KorayTugay if the solution did not work for please let me know with more info. I will be glad to help. – Discount

Answer 2

You want:

int rowNumber=...;
string value = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='productOrderContainer']/table/tbody/tr[" + rowNumber +"]/div[id='something']")).getText();

In other words, locate <DIV> with the id "something" contained within the rowNumberth <TR> of the <TABLE> contained within the <DIV> with the id "productOrderContainer", and then get its text value (which is what I believe you mean by "get me the value in <div id='something'>"

Squaw

Answer 3

Well previously, I used the approach that you can find inside the WebElement:

WebElement baseTable = driver.findElement(By.tagName("table"));
WebElement tableRow = baseTable.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[2]")); //should be the third row
webElement cellIneed = tableRow.findElement(By.xpath("//td[2]"));
String valueIneed = cellIneed.getText();

Please note that I find inside the found WebElement instance.

The above is Java code, assuming that driver variable is healthy instance of WebDriver

Dobbin

That won't work as written because WebElement.findElement(By.xpath(...)) interprets the XPath locator in the document context, not in the element context like every other By.whatever(). – Squaw

It needs to be tableRow.findElement(By.xpath("td[2]")), right? – Blamed

Answer 4

if you want to access table cell

WebElement thirdCell = driver.findElement(By.Xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]")); 

If you want to access nested table cell -

WebElement thirdCell = driver.findElement(By.Xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]"+//table/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]));

For more details visit this Tutorial

Hambley

Answer 5

(.//*[table-locator])[n]

where n represents the specific line.

Pyxie

Answer 6

The following code allows you to specify the row/column number and get the resulting cell value:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
WebElement base = driver.findElement(By.className("Table"));
tableRows = base.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
List<WebElement> tableCols = tableRows.get([ROW_NUM]).findElements(By.tagName("td"));
String cellValue = tableCols.get([COL_NUM]).getText();

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