Locating child nodes of WebElements in selenium

If you have to wait there is a method presenceOfNestedElementLocatedBy that takes the "parent" element and a locator, e.g. a By.xpath:

WebElement subNode = new WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(
    ExpectedConditions.presenceOfNestedElementLocatedBy(
        divA, By.xpath(".//div/span")
    )
);

For Finding All the ChildNodes you can use the below Snippet 

List<WebElement> childs = MyCurrentWebElement.findElements(By.xpath("./child::*"));

        for (WebElement e  : childs)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getTagName());
        }

Note that this will give all the Child Nodes at same level -> Like if you have structure like this :

<Html> 
<body> 
 <div> ---suppose this is current WebElement 
   <a>
   <a>
      <img>
          <a>
      <img>
   <a>

It will give me tag names of 3 anchor tags here only . If you want all the child Elements recursively , you can replace the above code with MyCurrentWebElement.findElements(By.xpath(".//*"));

Hope That Helps !!


According to JavaDocs, you can do this:

WebElement input = divA.findElement(By.xpath(".//input"));

How can I ask in xpath for "the div-tag that contains a span with the text 'hello world'"?

WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[span[text()='hello world']]"));

The XPath spec is a suprisingly good read on this.

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Java

Xpath

Selenium

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