Selecting a cell in a table with no name (CSS or otherwise?)

[Eric Snyder]

I am new to both Python and Robot Framework and am trying to figure out a way to Get Table Cell on a specific cell, when neither the table itself nor any of the rows/cells have names to identify them.  The table I have to work with looks something like:

<table class="table table-bordered table-striped">

     <thead>

          <tr>

               <th></th>

               <th>Email</th>

               <th>Username</th>

               <th>Moid</th>

          </tr>

     </thead>

     <tbody>

          <tr>

               <td>

               <td>[email address]</td>

               <td>name</td>

               <td>44</td>

          </tr>

          <tr>

               <td>

               <td>[email address]</td>

               <td>name</td>

               <td>45</td>

          </tr>

     </tbody>

</table>

What I would like to do is be able to get cell contents for the second cell [email address] of the first row, but since the only way I know how to retrieve anything is by name or id, I'm at a bit of a loss here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

[Jan Zdunek]

Hi!

I assume that you're using the Selenium2 Testlibrary. In that case "Get Table Cell" is your friend. But you still need a table locator. Without an id or a name you might want to use XPath. E.g. if it is the only table in your html page "Get Table Cell    xpath=//table    3    2" should do the trick.

Regards

Jan

[Eric Snyder]

Thank you, Jan.  Yes, using Selenium2.  If I try to use that, though, i wind up with an error stating that "No keyword with name 'Get Table Cell    xpath=//table    3    2' found

Unfortunately, I haven't had any real resources available locally and am trying to learn this stuff "freestyle"; so I don't quite get what the proper syntax would be.  

What I'd love to be able to do is something like ${foo} = Get Table Cell and then ${foo} Should Be Equal <email address>

[Eric Snyder]

Ok, nevermind; thanks again for your time, Jan!  I figure out my problem...it's the loose nut between the keyboard and the chair.  I wasn't tab separating my arguments and they were getting read as part of the keyword.

[Kumar Prem WSA]

try this , hope it work 

Open Browser http://moz.com/top500

Assign Id to Element xpath=//*[@id="top-500"] temp_id

${cell_A} Get Table Cell temp_id 5 5

log ${cell_A}

[Eric Snyder]

Thanks for checking in, Kumar!  Jan's suggestion worked for what I needed, once I got my head out.