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'>

Prashant Shukla · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-07T14:15:58.647

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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.

edited Jan 07 '13 at 14:15

answered Jan 07 '13 at 08:27

Prashant Shukla

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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 ``s in the entire document, not in the specific table. – Ross Patterson Jan 07 '13 at 11:59
My Mistake... the By.className wasn't supposed to be empty. copy paste error. Thanks @RossPatterson – Prashant Shukla Jan 07 '13 at 14:16
@KorayTugay if the solution did not work for please let me know with more info. I will be glad to help. – Prashant Shukla Jan 09 '13 at 11:53

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '13 at 12:05

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'>"

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 22 '18 at 15:07

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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

edited Nov 22 '18 at 15:07

Bence Kaulics

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answered Jan 07 '13 at 08:34

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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()`. – Ross Patterson Jan 07 '13 at 11:57
It needs to be `tableRow.findElement(By.xpath("td[2]"))`, right? – Kai Hartmann Oct 01 '21 at 14:27

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '16 at 13:24

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

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 09 '15 at 00:53

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

where n represents the specific line.

edited Jun 09 '15 at 00:53

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answered Jun 08 '15 at 19:01

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 18 '18 at 17:45

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();

How to find specific lines in a table using Selenium?

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