Syntax error How to get text from each cell of an HTML table using Selenium?

How to get text from each cell of an HTML table using Selenium?

We can get text from each cell of an HTML table with Selenium webdriver.A <table> tag is used to define a table in an html document. A table consists of rows represented by <tr> and columns represented by <td>. The table headers are identified by <th> tag.

Let us consider a table from which we will get text from each cell.

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Let us see the html code representation for the above table−

To retrieve the rows count of the table, we will use−

List<WebElement> rows =driver.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));

int rws_cnt= rows.size();

To retrieve the columns count of the table, we will use−

List<WebElement> cols =driver.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

int cols_cnt= cols.size();

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class TableCellValue{
   public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
         WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
         String u="https://sqengineer.com/practice-sites/practice-tables-selenium/";
         driver.get(u);
         driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
         // identify table
         WebElement t = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='table1']/tbody"));
         // count rows with size() method
         List<WebElement> rws = t.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
         int rws_cnt = rws.size();
         //iterate rows of table
         for (int i = 0;i < rws_cnt; i++) {
         // count columns with size() method
         List<WebElement> cols = rws.get(i).findElements(By.tagName("td"));
         int cols_cnt = cols.size();
         //iterate cols of table
         for (int j = 0;j < cols_cnt; j++) {
         // get cell text with getText()
         String c = cols.get(j).getText();
      System.out.println("The cell value is: " + c);
   }
}
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Updated on: 2020-09-18T08:30:23+05:30

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