Read a text and click on a particular row of a table using Selenium in Java

Question

I am trying to read and click a value in a row (row width=85) of table using Selenium. So far I tried these two methods, but unable to locate value. I am attaching html code as image.

findElementByXpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]");

findElementByXpath("//table[@width=\"85\"]/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]");

table html code

Any help, really appreciated.

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-05 19:58:56Z

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Rely on the id attributes to get the table element and get the first td with width="85"inside:

findElementByXpath('//div[@id="Display"]/table[@id="tblData"]//td[@width="85"]')

Note that relying on the width attribute doesn't seem very reliable. Alternatively, use indexes - get the second td in the first tr tag inside the table (indexing starts from 1):

findElementByXpath('//div[@id="Display"]/table[@id="tblData"]//tr[1]/td[2]')

edited Dec 5, 2014 at 19:58

answered Dec 5, 2014 at 19:52

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Kodiyan Over a year ago

alecxe, thank you for the help, a slight change in Xpath worked. findkElementByXpath("//div[@id=\"Display\"]/table[@id=\"tblData\"]//tr[2]/td[2]"); or findElementByXpath("//div[@id=\"Display\"]/table[@id=\"tblData\"]//td[@width=\"85\"]");

Vivek Singh Over a year ago

You can also try out like: findElementByXpath(//table[@id='tblData']//td[contains(text(),'<your text>')])

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