How to find parent elements by python webdriver?
Is there any methods for python+selenium to find parent elements, brother elements, or child elements just like
driver.find_element_parent?
ordriver.find_element_next?
ordriver.find_element_previous
?
eg:
<tr>
<td>
<select>
<option value=0, selected='selected'> </option>
<option value=1, > </option>
<option value=2,> </option>
</select>
</td>
<td> 'abcd'
<input name='A'> </input>
<td>
<tr>
I've tried like below, but fail:
input_el=driver.find_element_by_name('A')
td_p_input=find_element_by_xpath('ancestor::input')
How can I get the parent of input element and then, finally, get the option selected?
You can find a parent element by using ..
xpath:
input_el = driver.find_element_by_name('A')
td_p_input = input_el.find_element_by_xpath('..')
What about making a separate xpath for getting selected option, like this:
selected_option = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//option[@selected="selected"]')
From your example, I figure you only want the selected option within a table-row if and only if this row also has an input element with the name "A", no matter where in the html-tree this element resides below the row-element.
You can achieve this via the xpath ancestor-axis.
For the sake of better readability I will show how to do this step by step (but you can actually put everything in only one xpath-expression):
# first find your "A" named element
namedInput = driver.find_element_by_name("A");
# from there find all ancestors (parents, grandparents,...) that are a table row 'tr'
rowElement = namedInput.find_element_by_xpath(".//ancestor::tr");
# from there find the first "selected" tagged option
selectedOption = rowElement.find_element_by_xpath(".//option[@selected='selected']");
One of the possible ways to navigate to element under same hierarchy is to use /../
in xpath as shown below:
current_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//android.view.ViewGroup/android.widget.RelativeLayout/android.widget.TextView[@text="Current element text"]/../android.widget.TextView[@text="Next element text"]')
Here it will:
- Firstly navigate to
android.widget.TextView[@text = "Current element text"]
- Then it will go back to parent element i.e
android.widget.RelativeLayout
and select the nextandroid.widget.TextView[@text="Next element text"]
under the same hierarchy.