Selenium Webdriver finding an element in a sub-element Selenium Webdriver finding an element in a sub-element python python

Selenium Webdriver finding an element in a sub-element


If you start an XPath expression with //, it begins searching from the root of document. To search relative to a particular element, you should prepend the expression with . instead:

element2 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@title='div2']")element2.find_element_by_xpath(".//p[@class='test']").text


Use the following:

element2 = driver.find_element_by_cssselector("css=div[title='div2']")element2.find_element_by_cssselector("p[@class='test']").text 

Please let me know if you have any problems.


This is how you search for element or tag in CSS subclass and I believe that it works for multilevel situation as well:

Sample HTML:

<li class="meta-item"> <span class="label">Posted:</span> <time class="value" datetime="2019-03-22T09:46:24+01:00" pubdate="pubdate">22.03.2019 u 09:46</time></li>