Help with xpath

Wayne Gunn

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Apr 8, 2021, 1:00:21 PM4/8/21

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I've got a website with a structure that looks like

<tbody>

<tr>

<td data-th='Name'>child elements and data</td>

<td data-th='Age'> child elements and data </td>

<td data-th='Sex'> child elements and data </td>

<td data-th='Hobby'> child elements and data </td>

</tr>

</tr>

<tr>

<td data-th='Name'>child elements and data2</td>

<td data-th='Age'> child elements and data2 </td>

<td data-th='Sex'> child elements and data2 </td>

<td data-th='Hobby'> child elements and data2 </td>

</tr>

</tr>

<tr>

<td data-th='Name'>child elements and data n</td>

<td data-th='Age'> child elements and data n </td>

<td data-th='Sex'> child elements and data n </td>

<td data-th='Hobby'> child elements and data n</td>

</tr>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

I wrote this xpath but not getting the desired result:

objTBody.FindElementsByXpath("//tr/td[@data-th='Name']")

It returns the td element in row 1, but what i really want to get is the parent row, not the name td. The row just doesnt have attributes of its own so I am forced to identify it by attributes of its children.

Another question , how do i return a collection of all direct children. If I have a parent dive with 10 children div elements, each having their own div child elements, and I want a collection of the 10 children of the parents, how do i do that? When i try, the grandchildren get returned. Children in IE doesnt do that.

Thank you

Roger Cook

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Apr 8, 2021, 1:11:19 PM4/8/21

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Go up one step in the xpath with the '..' path. So your xpath would become "//tr/td[@data-th='Name']/..".

roger

Wayne Gunn

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Apr 8, 2021, 5:32:35 PM4/8/21

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Thank you. That worked

Jason Liu

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Apr 9, 2021, 1:07:49 AM4/9/21

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//td[@data-th='Name']/..

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