Selenium

Handling Web Tables in Selenium

This requires some knowledge of HTML table. The table is the main tag where we have rows< tr >, and one row can have many columns < td >.
Sample table will be as given below. Write the code in notepad and save the file with any name and the extension should be html. Let’s say sample.html, open file in browser

< table border="1">
      < tr>
        < td>Java < /td>
        < td>Pune< /td>
      < /tr>
      < tr>
        < td>By< /td>
        < td>Pune< /td>
      < /tr>
      < tr>
        < td>Kiran< /td>
        < td>Pune< /td>
      < /tr>
< /table>


    Output:
     
      Java Pune
      By Pune
      Kiran Pune

The table needs to be automated, means we should be able to print all values in a table. In future we can test those values against expected values.
Now if we go about locating every element of a table, it’s not affordable as we don’t know how many rows will be there. Columns are fixed, but number of rows is not.
Need to write the same code again and again if dynamic code is not written.
There may be cases where we may not have any rows.

So we need to put some logic here as below:

First locate the table, and then check how many rows are there.
Iterate over rows. Find columns in every row. Iterate over columns and print data dynamically.

Complete code of above table:

import java.util.List;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; 
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class FirstExample {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     // opens a Firefox browser
     WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver()
     
     // opening of url
     
     driver.get("http://www.javabykiran.com/selenium/demo/");
     // Maximize window driver.manage().window().maximize();
     // locate email element
     
     WebElement userEle = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[id=email]"));
     // enter uname into text box
     userEle.sendKeys("kiran@gmail.com");
     // locate password element
     WebElement passwordEle = driver.findElement(By.id("password"));
     // enter password into text box passwordEle.sendKeys("123456");

     // locate sign in button
     WebElement signInbuttonEle	= driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@ id='form']/div[3]/div/button"));
     // click sign in button signInbuttonEle.click();

     // locate users link
     WebElement usersLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/aside[1]/section/ul/li[3]/a/span"));
     // click users Link usersLink.click();

     // locate table
      WebElement Table	= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table[@ class='table table-hover']"));

     // inside table go for rows.
     List< WebElement > tr = Table.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
     // no of rows printed.
     System.out.println("total no of rows " + tr.size());

     // iterating rows.
     for (WebElement row : tr) {
     // get list of columns
     List< WebElement > td = row.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
     // iterating columns
     for (WebElement col : td) {
     // printing column text
     System.out.println(col.getText());
   }
   System.out.println("...........");
   }
   // locate logout button
   WebElement logoutButtonEle = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div/header/nav/div/ul/li/a"));
   // click logout button logoutButtonEle.click();
  }
}