Get all immediate children and nothing deeper
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Solution 1
("*") gives all the child elements of the context node. So use:
body.findElement(By.xpath("*"));
Solution 2
Here's another way to get the direct children of an element:
element.findElement(By.xpath("./*"));
Solution 3
/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.
Solution 4
The child instead of descendant may helps someone.
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WebElement body = browser.findElement(By.xpath("//body")); body.findElement(By.xpath("")); // I want to get all child elements // inside body, but nothing deeper.Example document.
<html> <body> <div> </div> <span> <table> </table> </span> </body> </html>Expected result is
divandspan. I have no controll over the documents and they vary greatly.