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I am trying to search for an element in a sub-element with Selenium (Version 2.28.0), but selenium des not seem to limit its search to the sub-element. Am I doing this wrong or is there a way to use element.find to search a sub-element?
For an example I created a simple test webpage with this code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<div class=div title=div1>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p class='test'>My first paragraph.</p>
</div>
<div class=div title=div2>
<h1>My Second Heading</h1>
<p class='test'>My second paragraph.</p>
</div>
<div class=div title=div3>
<h1>My Third Heading</h1>
<p class='test'>My third paragraph.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
My python (Version 2.6) code looks like this:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# Open the test page with this instance of Firefox
# element2 gets the second division as a web element
element2 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@title='div2']")
# Search second division for a paragraph with a class of 'test' and print the content
print element2.find_element_by_xpath("//p[@class='test']").text
# expected output: "My second paragraph."
# actual output: "My first paragraph."
If I run:
print element2.get_attribute('innerHTML')
It returns the html from the second division. So selenium is not limiting its search to element2.
I would like to be able to find a sub-element of element2. This post suggests my code should work Selenium WebDriver access a sub element but his problem was caused by a time-out issue.
Can anyone help me understand what is happening here?
This is how you search for element or tag in CSS subclass and I believe that it works for multilevel situation as well:
Sample HTML:
This is how you would get
pubdatetag value for example.When you start your XPath expression with
//, it search from root of document ignoring your parent element. You should prepend expression with.Use the following:
Please let me know if you have any problems.