Selenium Webdriver: Page factory initialization using paths relative to other elements?

Question

I\'m trying to write a page object in Selenium Webdriver using the page factory @FindBy annotations. The page object is for a sidebar, and the parent WebElement

Answer 1

No, it is not possible this way. But you can use getter methods instead of annotation-based initialization:

public class SomePage {
    @FindBy (xpath = "//div[contains(@class,'yui3-accordion-panel-content') and   child::div[.='Sidebar']]")
    private WebElement sidebar;

    private WebElement getSomeChildElement() {
        return siderbar.findElement(By.id("somechild"));
    }
}