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Selenium2 - Read a Table

If I have a table which is designed in this manner:









If you have an ID for the table its really good to catch the table else you will have to do alot of manipulation with the tables you find...

// Here I try to identify the table using its ID.
WebElement table = webdriver.findElement(By.id("tableID"));
// Here I try to identify the table using a simple xpath
WebElement table = webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/table/tbody"));

// Get all the rows of the table
List rows = table.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
Iterator i = rows.iterator();

System.out.println("-----------------------------------------------");
// Iterate over the rows of the table
while(i.hasNext()) {
WebElement row = i.next();
// Find all the columns of the row
List columns = row.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
Iterator j = columns.iterator();

System.out.print(" | ");
// Iterate over the columns of the particular row
while(j.hasNext()) {
WebElement column = j.next();
System.out.print(column.getText());
System.out.print(" | ");
}
System.out.println("");
System.out.println("-----------------------------------------------");
}

In Selenium1:
You can use, getTable() function

Comments

Anonymous said…
Thanks dude.. Its working:)
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Unknown said…
great stuff thx m8

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