The WebTable API

Hi There...

This API introduces a WebTable class (The first utility), that will help in dealing with an HTML table

Little story - workaround , done smartly :)

While I come across a Table in an HTML page, accessing the table cell content using Web Driver script makes the code look silly with lots of XPATH content (Most of the times ID is not available for cell, hence we prefer XPATH ). Do you had this experience ? if not , lets take a sample example :)

A Sample Table as shown in image : from WordPress

If you want to get the content of the first and second cell from the Header Section then the Web Drvier code would be something like

    String firstCellOfHeader= driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[4]/form/table/thead/tr/th[2]/a/span")).getText();

  String secondCellOfHeader= driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[4]/form/table/thead/tr/th[3]/a/span")).getText();




If you want to get the content of the first and second cell from the first row of Body Section then the Web Drvier code would be something like



String firstCellOfBody= driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[4]/form/table/tbody/tr/td/strong")).getText();

String secondCellOfBody= driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[4]/form/table/tbody/tr/td[2]")).getText();

The same code, when used with the Utility API, there is no need for having XPATH or any Locator to identify the cell of a table.
The equivalent code would be ...

/*Step1: Identify the Table Element*/
WebElement postsTable = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[4]/form/table"));


/*Step2: Pass the Table Element to the WebTable Utility Class provided in the API*/
WebTable table = WebTable.getTable(postsTable);

/*Once the above two steps are done, now you can access any cell by passing its cell index : starts from 0th Index*/

String firstCellOfHeader= table.getTHead().getRow(0).getHeaderCell(1).getText();
String secondCellOfHeader= table.getTHead().getRow(0).getHeaderCell(2).getText();


String firstCellOfBody= table.getTBody().getRow(0).getCell(0).getText(); 
String secondCellOfBody= table.getTBody().getRow(0).getCell(1).getText();


This approach Benefits few things

• Code looks more clean and readable
• No need for having locator to identify the Cell
• Easy scripting and debuging

Download Locations:


Download ATU Selenium Utilities - WebTable API (included from version1 onwards)


A lot more utilities will be added to this API. Happy Scripting :)

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