How to identify the first element in table using selenium

Question

wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId'][0]")))
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
line_item = driver.find_elements("xpath", "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId'][0]")
print(line_item)

I need to find the first element in table which is arr[0] but i am finding no element exception.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '23 at 05:18

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You can use the find_element_by_xpath method and specify the xpath expression for the first element in the table.

answered Jul 04 '23 at 05:18

Kingdavid Christian

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I need to wait for the element to be present wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId'][0]"))). This particular code [0] is not working – Ben David Jul 04 '23 at 05:23
In xpath how to add "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId'][0]" [0] to expression – Ben David Jul 04 '23 at 05:25
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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '23 at 06:29

As pointed out before you can use

driver.find_element()

It returns the first found element within DOM tree which fits the xpath.

driver.find_elements()

returns all elements with specified xpath within DOM tree.

using find_element:

  wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId']")))
    driver.implicitly_wait(20)
    line_item = driver.find_element("xpath", "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId']")
    print(line_item)

using find_elements():

 wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId']")))
    driver.implicitly_wait(20)
    list_of_all_elements = driver.find_elements("xpath", "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId']")
    line_item = list_of_all_elements[0]
    print(line_item)

This cheatsheet has a good section for locating list/table elements. devhints.io/xpath

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '23 at 22:00

To identify the first element in a <table> using an index instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use the following locator strategies:

Line of code:

line_item = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//table//tbody//tr//a[@data-refid='recordId']")))[0]
print(line_item[0])

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

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