Selenium: Cannot print values from different rows of a webtable

Question

I am trying to print the values of the City column for different rows from the below table shown in the image.

I used the below code. My code prints "Dubai" 4 times instead of printing different cities. Can someone help me in fixing this?

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Selenium\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.get("http://toolsqa.com/automation-practice-table/");


WebElement body = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='content']/table/tbody"));
List<WebElement> rows = body.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
System.out.println(rows.get(0).findElement(By.xpath("//td[2]")).getText());
System.out.println(rows.get(1).findElement(By.xpath("//td[2]")).getText());
System.out.println(rows.get(2).findElement(By.xpath("//td[2]")).getText());
System.out.println(rows.get(3).findElement(By.xpath("//td[2]")).getText());

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Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-06 18:10:04Z

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Actually your code is correct, only problem with your xpath using for getting city element.

When you are going to find city name using xpath //td[2], your are searching actually second column every time but on whole page that's why you are getting same city name every time.

You need to provide .//td[2] xpath, because when you provided xpath with . it will search only element context otherwise it will search on document means on whole page, and according to whole page output is absolutely correct.

Now if you want simply print all cities try as below :-

List<WebElement> cities = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@id='content']/table/tbody//td[2]")); 

for(WebElement city : cities) 
{
 System.out.println(city.getText());
}

edited Aug 6, 2016 at 18:10

answered Aug 6, 2016 at 17:47

Saurabh Gaur

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Karthik Taduvai Over a year ago

Thanks Saurabh for the detailed explanation. Now, my code works perfectly.

Harish Over a year ago

@Saurabh I'm just curious, if we provide // in the xpath like you have given /tbody//td[2] skips one element (say tr in this case)? Also, will my answer work too for printing City column values? I'm not an expert in Selenium. So, I was just curious to know.

Saurabh Gaur Over a year ago

@Harish / Selects from the root node and // Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they are, so when we are at tbody I'm just consider it current node then after that I used // means now locator will look for element from the tbody...

Harish · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-06 17:44:47Z

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Try below code to print values of the City column:

    List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@id='content']/tbody/tr"));
    for(int row = 0; row < rows.size(); row++){
        System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='content']/table/tbo‌dy/tr[row]/td[2]")).getText());
    }

Hope it helps!

edited Aug 6, 2016 at 17:44

answered Aug 6, 2016 at 17:33

Harish

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