Using Selenium in Java to get table contents

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This is a continuation from my other post

Using JSoup to get data-code value of a table

I am trying to get the text inside the <span> tags on the table using the cssSelector() method in Selenium webdriver

<table class ="team-list">
          <tr data-code="1">
              <td>
              <span>
                 Get This Text
              </span>
              </td>     
          </tr>
  </table>

I have tried the following code, but this will print out the text in all cells for each row, but i only need to get the one inside the <span> tags

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.example.com");

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("table.team-list td"));

for(WebElement element: elements)
{
    System.out.println(element.getText());
}

use .team-list td span ... u r providing td so it will give text of all tds including those which don't have span also. — Vivek Singh
– Vivek Singh, Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 20:26
This worked for me List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("table.team-list td > td:nth-of-type(2)")); — user1281921
– user1281921, Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 21:29

tupac shakur · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-16 12:32:00Z

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if you know the text you are looking for you can the following:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.example.com");

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("table.team-list td"));

for(WebElement element: elements)
{
    if(element.getText().equals("Get This Text"))
       System.out.println(element.getText());
}

That's might be o(n) but if you are not care about performance that could solve your problem.

answered Jan 16, 2019 at 12:32

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Crx · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 10:07:43Z

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I think you should change your selector to this:

By.cssSelector("table.team-list span")

answered Feb 20, 2015 at 10:07

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Mayur Shah · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 10:08:41Z

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Try something like this.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.example.com");
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("table.team-list td"));

    for(WebElement element: elements)
    {
        try{
           System.out.println(element.findElement(By.tagName("span")).getText());
         }(org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException nsee){
         }
    }

answered Feb 20, 2015 at 10:08

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