How to extract text from all the children of HTML tag through Selenium Webdriver in Python

Question

I have this HTML

<tr height="22px">
    <td colspan="1" class="det" width="40%">Net Sales</td>

    <td align="right" class="det">2,548.00</td>
    <td align="right" class="det">1,946.36</td>
    <td align="right" class="det">1,139.14</td>
    <td align="right" class="det">2,345.60</td>
    <td align="right" class="det">1,323.84</td>
</tr>

I find the element using text:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("url")

quarterly_results_data = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*   [contains(text(),'Net Sales)]")

print(quarterly_results_data.text)

I get:

Net Sales

However I want all the text between parent <tr>:

Net Sales
2,548
1,946
...

Using :

print(quarterly_results_data.parent.text)

does not give any results.

I know it can be done by beautifulsoup, but I will have to use html parser every time i click on a new link. Please help with the right syntax.

Please take a minute to fix the indent and spacing in the HTML so that it's easier to read. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Feb 25, 2017 at 15:04

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-25 11:40:46Z

2

You should get text of parent element as below:

quarterly_results_data = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Net Sales')]/parent::*")
print(quarterly_results_data.text)

or

quarterly_results_data = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[td[text()='Net Sales']]")
print(quarterly_results_data.text)

If you need to print out each td value separately:

for child in quarterly_results_data.find_elements_by_xpath('./td'):
    print(child.text)

edited Feb 25, 2017 at 11:40

answered Feb 25, 2017 at 11:35

Andersson

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user9608133 Over a year ago

The question is about how to get all child nodes text. Why are you writing about parent nodes?

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