Find child elements : Selenium Web driver

When same object is getting duplicated for N number of parent, then user can refer parent and child relationship to identify the object in browser.

WebElement bodyElement = driver.findElement(By.id("body"));
WebElement bodyElement1 = bodyElement.findElement(By.id("body"));
System.out.println(bodyElement1.findElement(By.id("TotalScore")).getText());

User want to read all child elements of div(parent) container by using following methods.

WebElement bodyElement = driver.findElement(By.id("body"));  
List divElements = bodyElement.findElements(By.className("div"));
for(WebElement childDiv : divElements){
 List fieldSetEle = childDiv.findElements(By.tagName("fieldset"));
 System.out.println(childDiv.getTagName()+":"+fieldSetEle.size());
    }  

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Types of locaters in Selenium Webdriver

Types :  

• Finding element by id
• Finding elemeny by name 
• Finding element by link.
• Finding element by Xpath.
• Finding element by CSS
• Findidng element by DOM
• Finding child eleme

Finding element by id :

 

For Example : driver.findElement(By.id(userid));

 

Finding elemeny by name :

 

driver.findElement(By.name("logon"));

 

Finding element by link:

 

driver.findElement(By.linkText("rank list"));

 

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("rank"));

 

Finding element by Xpath:

 

-- To find xpath user can use fire bug.

 

//table/tr[2]/td/input

 

//input[@id='item_quantity']

 

(//table[@name='cart']//input)[2]

 

//input[contains(@class,'required')]

 

//input[contains(@class,'required') and type='text']

 

some more options..

 

// xpath iposition

 

//Xpath relative

 

Finding element by CSS

 

driver.findElements(By.css("input[class~='required']"));
driver.findElements(By.class("required"));

 

Finding elements by DOM

 

document.forms[0].elements[0]

 

document.forms['loginOut'].elements['username']

 

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