Webdriver findElements By xpath

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1 I am doing a tutorial to show how findElements By xpath works  I would like to know why it returns all the texts that following the  lt div gt  element with attribute id container   code for xpath  By xpath    div  id  container     2  how should I modify the code so it just return first or first few nodes that follow the parent note     e g  first node like  Home   first few node like  Home  Manual Testing and Automation Testing   Thanks for your advise and help   Here is the code fragment for this tutorial   import java util List   import org junit Test  import org junit Before  import org junit After   import org openqa selenium By  import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium WebElement  import org openqa selenium firefox FirefoxDriver   public class WD findElements         Test     public void test byxpath             WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver             try              driver get  http   www hexbytes com             List lt WebElement gt  elements   driver findElements By xpath    div  id  container                       System out println  Test7 number of elements      elements size                  for WebElement ele   elements                     ele sendKeys  hexbyes                    System out println ele getText                       System out println ele getAttribute  id                       System out println ele getTagName                                      finally               driver close                      end of test byxpath   public void xpathDemo2                WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver               try                 driver get  http   www hexbytes com                   WebElement webelement   driver findElement By id  container                      matching single element with attribute value container                System out println  The id value is      webelement getAttribute  id                    System out println  The tag name is      webelement getTagName                             finally                  driver close                           end of xpathDemo2   public void xpathDemo3            WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver           try             driver get  http   www hexbytes com                find first child node of div element with attribute container           List lt WebElement gt  elements   driver findElements By xpath    div  id  container     1                System out println  Test1 number of elements      elements size                 for WebElement ele   elements                 System out println ele getTagName                   System out println ele getAttribute  id                   System out println                    System out println                          finally          driver close             end of xpathDemo3

User · Accepted Answer

Your questions   Q 1    I would like to know why it returns all the texts that following the div  It should not and I think in will not  It returns all div with  id  attribute value equal  containter   and all children of this   But you are printing the results with ele getText    Where getText will return all text content of all children of your result    Get the visible  i e  not hidden by CSS  innerText of this element  including sub-elements  without any leading or trailing whitespace  Returns  The innerText of this element   Q 2    how should I modify the code so it just return first or first few nodes that follow the parent note This is not really clear what you are looking for  Example    lt p1 gt   lt div  gt   lt  p1  lt p2  gt     The following  to parent of the div is p2   This would be      div  id  container   1  parent    following-sibling       or shorter     div  id  container   1     following-sibling       If you are only looking for the first one extent the expression with an  predicate   e g  1  - for the first one  or  position    amp lt  4 for the first three      If your are looking for the first child of the first div     div  id  container   1    1    If there is only one div with id an you are looking for the first child        div  id  container     1    and so on

User · Answer

Instead of  css  container   use   css div container nth-of-type 1  css div container nth-of-type 2

User · Answer

The XPath turns into this   Get me all of the div elements that have an id equal to container   As for getting the first etc  you have two options   Turn it into a  findElement   - this will just return the first one for you anyway   or  To explicitly do this in XPath  you d be looking at      div  id  container    1    for the first one  for the second etc      div  id  container    2    Then XPath has a special indexer  called last  which would  you guessed it  get you the last element found      div  id  container    last      Worth mentioning that XPath indexers will start from 1 not 0 like they do in most programming languages   As for getting the parent  node   well  you can use parent     div  id  container   parent      That would get the div s direct parent   You could then go further and say I want the first  div  with an id of container  and I want his parent      div  id  container    1  parent      Hope that helps

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