Selenium 2 - Can findElement(By.xpath) be scoped to a particular element?

Question

All the examples of findElement(By.xpath) I\'ve seen search the whole page, e.g.

WebElement td = driver.findElement(By.xpath(\"//td[3]\"));

Answer 1

what i m understanding that u want to retrieve a particular td from a tr, so here's a snippet you can try it with your code to find 3rd td...



WebElement tr=//...find a particular table row 
    List columns = tr.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
    Iterator j = columns.iterator();
    int count=0;
    while(j.hasNext())  
            {   
                WebElement column = j.next();
                if(count==2)
                {
                    System.out.print(column.getText());
                }
                count++;
            }

You can change count value in if condition to retrieve another td..
Hope this will help you..