Get all immediate children and nothing deeper

Question

WebElement body = browser.findElement(By.xpath(\"//body\"));

body.findElement(By.xpath(\"\")); // I want to get all child elements 
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Answer 1

("*") gives all the child elements of the context node. So use:

body.findElement(By.xpath("*"));

Answer 2

/html/body/*

Will select only immediate children elements of body.

Do remember that if you copy all these selected nodes, you also copy their content. So, if you do copy-of, table will also be produced to the resulting document.

Also, I would recommend to read at least XPath basics, you ask too many similar questions.

Answer 3

The child instead of descendant may helps someone.

Answer 4

Here's another way to get the direct children of an element:

element.findElement(By.xpath("./*"));