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Bob the Dawg
Bob the Dawg

Reputation: 23

Webdriver: find element by html tag which contains an html tag which belongs to a certain class

to clarify a really messy title: There is a piece of page code that looks like this (I have simplified the actual code): 

<div class="CLASS1">
  <p>...
  <p>
    <strong>
      <i CLASS2 "></i>
      THE DATA I WANT
    </strong>
  </p>
  <p>...
  <p>...
</div>

I am using Selenium Webdriver with Java and I've been trying to get the "DATA I WANT" line, but since it is contained between tags (and not the CLASS2 italic tag), I am having hard time accomplishing this. Note that the rest of the paragraphs (marked as <p>...) contain the analogous constructions. Currently it seems like searching for a CLASS1 <strong> tag that contains CLASS2 element <i> might be the solution, but I have not been able to compose a correct search path so far. Now I am not sure if I am approaching this problem from a correct angle at all. Any suggestions are greatly aprpeciated! I would like to have the shortest and the most reliable solution for this...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 297

Answers (1)

LINGS
LINGS

Reputation: 3630

For the HTML you have posted. Following CSS selector should work.

div.CLASS1 > p:nth-child(2) > strong

If you need to get the the strong tag that contains i.CLASS2 then you could do something like this.

// get all p tags
List<WebElement> pTags = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div.CLASS1 > p"));

WebElement myWebElement = null;

// iterate and find p tag that contains i.CLASS2
for (WebElement element : pTags) {
    if (element.findElements(By.cssSelector("i.CLASS2")).size() == 1) {
        myWebElement = element.findElement(By.cssSelector("strong"));
        break;
    }
}

// the data you want
System.out.println(myWebElement.getText());

Upvotes: 4

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