Get all child elements

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In Selenium with Python is it possible to get all the children of a WebElement as a list

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Another veneration of find elements by xpath         is   from selenium webdriver common by import By   find elements By XPATH

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Yes  you can use find elements by  to retrieve children elements into a list   See the python bindings here   http   selenium-python readthedocs io locating-elements html  Example HTML    lt ul class  bar  gt       lt li gt one lt  li gt       lt li gt two lt  li gt       lt li gt three lt  li gt   lt  ul gt    You can use the find elements by  like so   parentElement   driver find element by class name  bar   elementList   parentElement find elements by tag name  li     If you want help with a specific case  you can edit your post with the HTML you re looking to get parent and children elements from

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Here is a code to get the child elements  In java    String childTag   childElement getTagName    if childTag equals  html           return   html 1   current    WebElement parentElement   childElement findElement By xpath          List lt WebElement gt  childrenElements   parentElement findElements By xpath        int count   0  for int i 0 i lt childrenElements size    i           WebElement childrenElement   childrenElements get i       String childrenElementTag   childrenElement getTagName        if childTag equals childrenElementTag                  count

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Yes  you can achieve it by find elements by css selector      or find elements by xpath           However  this doesn t sound like a valid use case to find all children of an element  It is an expensive operation to get all direct indirect children  Please further explain what you are trying to do  There should be a better way   from selenium import webdriver  driver   webdriver Firefox   driver get  http   www stackoverflow com    header   driver find element by id  header      start from your target element  here for example   header  all children by css   header find elements by css selector      all children by xpath   header find elements by xpath          print  len all children by css       str len all children by css   print  len all children by xpath       str len all children by xpath

[python] Get all child elements

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