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

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

If you only want to to find the child elements of the tr use a relative path not an absolute.

This should work:

int index = 3;
List tds = tr.findElements(By.xpath(".//td"));
System.out.println(tds[index].getText());