Selenium Webdriver - Fetching Table Data

Question

I want to fetch data from tables in UI. I know about looping through rows and columns using \"tr\" and \"td\". But the one the table I have is something like this:

Answer 1

You don't need to loop through elements. Instead, use a ByChained locator.

If you table looks like this:

  

    
Col1
Col2
Col3
    
data
data
data
    
data
data
data
    
data
data
data
  

The locate like this:

By tableBodyLocator = By.xpath(".//table/tbody");
By headerRowLocator = By.xpath(".//tr[position()=1]");
By dataRowsLocator = By.xpath(".//tr[not(position()=1)]");

By headerRowLocator = new ByChained(tableBodyLocator, headerRowLocator);
List weHeaders = driver.findElement(headerRowLocator)
       .findElements(By.xpath(".//th");
List allRowData = driver.findElements(tableBodyLocator, dataRowsLocator);

WebElement row1Data = allRowData.get(0);
WebElement row2Data = allRowData.get(1);

etc.