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Jonny Peppers
Jonny Peppers

Reputation: 169

How to get text inside of table and iterate multiple

I have a HTML in the formal of this

 <tbody>
    <tr> 
      <td> Test1 </td> 
      <td> .. </td>
    <tr/>
    <tr> ... </tr>
 </tbody>
 <tbody>
    <tr> 
      <td> Test2 </td> 
      <td> .. </td>
    <tr/>
    <tr> .. </tr>
 </tbody>
 <tbody>
    <tr> 
      <td> Test3 </td> 
      <td> .. </td>
    <tr/>
    <tr> .. </tr>
 </tbody>

I need to have a list of strings Test1, Test2, Test3. I am not quite sure how to iterate through all the tbody's and go in the tr and get the correct td. Could someone point me in the correct direction? How could I generate the xpath into those particular element? They do not have any ids

I was looking into webDriver.findElements(). Could you I use this to iterate through the tbody? If so how?

I tried to do the following:

driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(..);
WebElement telem = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("td"));
List<WebElement> tr_collection=telem.findElements(By.cssSelector("td"));

This doesn't seem to get all the Test1, Test2, Test3 strings. Unfortunately the HTML doesnt have IDs that I can use. How could I iterate through all these?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1702

Answers (3)

noor
noor

Reputation: 3004

try the below code: 

String text = null;

List<WebElement> allElements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//td[contains(text(),'Test')]"));

for(WebElement element: allElements){
   text= element.getText();
   System.out.println("Text is : "+text);

}

hope this will help you.

Upvotes: 0

Kudin
Kudin

Reputation: 466

Same as Ranjith's, but with Java 8 and xPath:

List<String> inOneStatement = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//tbody/tr[1]/td[1]")) //List<WebElement> that contains 3 td that hold the desired strings
    .stream().map(WebElement::getText)   //accumulate the outputs from getText of each of those elements
    .collect(Collectors.toList()); // return them as List<String>

Sorry, didn't check the code in IDE, could have errors.

NB: I would never use this xPath locator in actual test framework, but to build a better one we need more context (full page source).

Upvotes: 1

Ranjith&#39;s
Ranjith&#39;s

Reputation: 4730

Solution for this is:

List<String> actualValues = new ArrayList<>();
List<WebElement> tableRowsList = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("tbody > tr"));
for(WebElement ele: tableRowsList) {
    actualValues.add(ele.findElement(By.cssSelector("td:nth-of-type(1)").getText()));
}

Upvotes: 1

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