Getting all the elements in DOM tree

[Anita Kar]

I am working on a project where I need to get the list of all the web elements in the DOM tree so that I can examine the attributes of each of them. I am aware of findElement(By ...) but that only works when you specify a "By" condition. I however, need the list of all the elements in the tree. Please let me know if there is a way to do so. 

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

First use driver.getPageSource() and then use the page source with a library such as this ? http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Anita Kar <anita...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am working on a project where I need to get the list of all the web elements in the DOM tree so that I can examine the attributes of each of them. I am aware of findElement(By ...) but that only works when you specify a "By" condition. I however, need the list of all the elements in the tree. Please let me know if there is a way to do so. 

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[Baswaraj Malage]

Krishnan

I ran into an issue of identifying all DOM elements within a div. When I look at pagesource, looks like it return entire page. In my example, I have two <div>s with unique IDs but elements within those divs are having same class, css, tag name etc... so, there is no way I can identify those elements on the page.

BTW, I have tried getting all elements with same class then identify using index i.e. [0], [1] etc... but this will not work for our actual project and there seems to be very high maintenance.

Is there a way limit page source to specific div?

-Baswaraj

[praveen kumar cherukuri]

Hi, 

We can add a filter to the element search we do on the DOM. 

Example: 

- This will return all the div elements with an 'id' attribute from the dom. : //div[@id]

- This will return all the div elements with an 'id' with value as 'abc' attribute from the dom. : //div[@id='abc']

- This will return all the div elements with an 'id' or 'class' attribute : "//div[@id or @class]"

- This will return all the div elements with an 'id' or 'class' with specific value : "//div[contains(@id,'cond') or contains(@class,'cell')]"

Let us know if your requirement is addressed or not. 

Or please be more detailed with small code snippet and example with expected behavior. 

Cheer., 

Praveen. 

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[Baswaraj Malage]

Thanks for your suggestions. Just to clarify, when I say <div> it's not table. It's a div wrapping many html elemnts.

I am attaching a simplified example with two divs having unique IDs but "Table A", "Table B" text and table(s) share same class name. Let us say that class name is "html-text".

I'm looking for methods to verify "Table A" text has been displayed within <div id = "d12345">. In other words, I would like to navigate to html elements within that div using it as starting point, so that I don't have to read all html elements with class-name as "html-text" and then use index [0] or xpath as actual web page more complex.

Thanks

Baswaraj