Locating child nodes of WebElements in selenium
According to JavaDocs, you can do this:
WebElement input = divA.findElement(By.xpath(".//input"));How can I ask in xpath for "the div-tag that contains a span with the text 'hello world'"?
WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[span[text()='hello world']]"));The XPath spec is a suprisingly good read on this.
If you have to wait there is a method presenceOfNestedElementLocatedBy that takes the "parent" element and a locator, e.g. a By.xpath:
WebElement subNode = new WebDriverWait(driver,10).until( ExpectedConditions.presenceOfNestedElementLocatedBy( divA, By.xpath(".//div/span") ));
For Finding All the ChildNodes you can use the below Snippet
List<WebElement> childs = MyCurrentWebElement.findElements(By.xpath("./child::*")); for (WebElement e : childs) { System.out.println(e.getTagName()); }Note that this will give all the Child Nodes at same level ->Like if you have structure like this :
<Html> <body> <div> ---suppose this is current WebElement <a> <a> <img> <a> <img> <a>It will give me tag names of 3 anchor tags here only . If you want all the child Elements recursively , you can replace the above code with MyCurrentWebElement.findElements(By.xpath(".//*"));
Hope That Helps !!