Selenium FindElement by parent div

Question

Trying to find link element of "a href". Snippet code:

<div id="contact-link">
    <a href="http://automationpractice.com/index.php?controller=contact" title="Contact Us">Contact us</a>
</div>

I managed doing it by:

Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@title='Contact Us']")).Click();

2.Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@href='http://automationpractice.com/index.php?controller=contact']")).Click();

3.Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[text()='Contact us']")).Click();

Could someone tell me how can I get by firstly getting parent div and then find what's inside that div (by going from the top to the bottom)

Can you elaborate what exactly you mean by **how can I get by firstly getting parent div and then find what's inside**? — undetected Selenium, Apr 25 '18 at 11:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '18 at 11:40

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So basically, with xpath, you are looking to replicate the HTML structure. What you need is:

//div[@id='contact-link']/a

This is going to return the a href under the div. Assuming its just 1, thats the way to go. If you want to go a little further, try:

//div[@id='contact-link']/a[@title='Contact Us']

answered Apr 25 '18 at 11:40

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Exactly what I wanted! Thank you :) – Ixi11 Apr 25 '18 at 11:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '18 at 15:29

Although you have already accepted the answer , I would like to highlight some point about Xpath and cssSelector. You should always pick cssSelector over Xpath :

Here is cssSelector for your requirement:

div[id='contact-link']>a

Code :

Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("div[id='contact-link']>a")).Click();

For more about cssSelector : https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp For Difference between Xpath and cssSelector, you can read it from this SO post: Diff between Xpath and cssSelector

Selenium FindElement by parent div

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