How to get parent of WebElement [duplicate]

Answer 1

Alternatively, can you try using Javascript Executor?

WebElement childElement = driver.findElement(By.id("someIdHere"));

WebElement parent = (childElement) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver)
.executeScript("return arguments[0].parentNode;", childElement);

Answer 2

There are a couple of ways you can accomplish this. If you insist on using XPath to do it, you need to add the context node to the locator, like this:

WebElement parentElement = childElement.findElement(By.xpath("./.."));

Alternatively, you can use the JavascriptExecutor interface, which might be slightly more performant. That would look like this:

// NOTE: broken into separate statements for clarity. Could be done as one statement.
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
WebElement parentElement = (WebElement)executor.executeScript("return arguments[0].parentNode;", childElement);