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sten
sten

Reputation: 7486

Get back index of matched element?

Is there a way to get the index of the matched element f.e. let say I have a table and use the following xpath expression to find element by content :

 //table/thead/tr/th[contains(.,'blah')]

I want to know the index of the matched 'th' element ? i.e. was it the first cell or the second one .. or .. nth.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 58

Answers (2)

peter pawar
peter pawar

Reputation: 106

I have used the same functionality in ruby. But in Java you can try something like this in Java: 

String path = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//th[contains(.,'blah')]")).toString();
String lastElement = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);

And for getting count of your th I'm using following code in ruby:

int columnNo = lastElement .match(/(?<=\[).+?(?=\])/).to_s.to_i

You can use appropriate code in java. Please correct if any typecasting errors. I'm not a java guy.

Upvotes: 0

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52685

You can try to implement below code (Python example):

all_elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//table/thead/tr/th')
target_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//table/thead/tr/th[contains(.,"blah")]')
print(all_elements.index(target_element))

Python list has built-in method index() which allow to get index of element in a list. Let me know if you need a solution in another programming language

Upvotes: 2

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