html table row count using Selenium Webdriver (Java)

Question

I am trying to count the total number of rows (excluding header) in my HTML table using Selenium Webdriver-Java.

Can someone please guide me in correct direction regarding the steps for the same?

Thanks in advance!

Can this be achieved using 'xpath' ?? – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 19:57 — Ketan Deopujari, Jun 25 '15 at 19:57

nilesh · Answer 1 · 2015-06-25T21:34:23.993

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If you could provide HTML around your table, we could provide more accurate selector in your case. Something like this should work. Hope you get the idea!

List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("table#dummyTable>tbody>tr"));
System.out.println("Total number of rows :"+ rows.size());

or using xpath

List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//table[@id='dummyTable']/tbody/tr"));
System.out.println("Total number of rows :"+ rows.size());

edited Jun 25 '15 at 21:34

answered Jun 25 '15 at 20:03

nilesh

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findElements, with an s on the end, will be needed – Steve Weaver Crawford Jun 25 '15 at 20:05
Can you please share the alternative solution using 'xpath' – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 20:21
Updated answer with xpath. However curious to know why do you need to use xpath? I recommend css over xpath. Check my answer here- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16788310/what-is-the-difference-between-css-selector-xpath-which-is-betteraccording-t – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 20:26
I tried the above mentioned options but its giving me count as zero. Any other way I can try this? – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 20:42
List rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/html/body/form[1]/section/table/tbody/tr")); System.out.println("Total number of rows :"+ rows.size()); – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 20:44
Like I said, provide brief HTML around the table. that will help get you a better selector. Xpath you mention in the comment is brittle and hard to read/maintain. You need a better selector – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 20:46
.......so on further tags.

– Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 20:53
I hope above HTML around the table will help. – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 20:53
I updated selector in the answer. Try it now – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 20:56
Its still showing count as zero. – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 21:01
what did you try? Is your real table id `dummyTable`? If not you would need to update it with real value in the original answer – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 21:03
Yes, I updated the table id with actual table name but its still giving count as zero. – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 21:06
Did you try xpath or CSS or both? Make sure you haven't misspelled anything – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 21:27
I tried xpath and cssSelector both but its not working. – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 21:31
Do you get any errors? – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 21:35
No. I am not getting any errors. It directly displays the output as: Total number of rows :0 – Ketan Deopujari Jun 25 '15 at 21:42
@KetanDeopujari Update your question with the HTML. Nilesh's answer should work. Post errors if you see any. If you still see zero, then it means we are running the code even before the table is loaded. Hence, we may need to wait for the table to be loaded and then count the columns. – LINGS Jun 25 '15 at 21:43
@KetanDeopujari `findElements` will not throw any error, if the css selector does not match it will give an empty array of elements and hence the size is zero. I still think the css selector is incorrect. – LINGS Jun 25 '15 at 21:49
One way to verify selector I guess to use findElement and check if it throws exception. Oh hey hi LINGS :) – nilesh Jun 25 '15 at 21:56

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