Dump Elements with By.xpath() in Java
Q
How to dump all HTML elements of a Web page with WebDriver in Java?
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A
If you want to dump all HTML elements of a Web page with WebDriver,
you can search child element recursively using the By.xpath() method.
Here is an example program that dumps all HTML elements of the loaded Web page.
// DumpElements.java
// Copyright (c) FYIcenter.com
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
public class DumpElements {
public static void main(String[] args) {
WebDriver driver = WebDriverLoader.load(args[0]);
driver.get("http://sqa.fyicenter.com");
WebElement html = driver.findElement(By.tagName("html"));
printTag(html,"");
driver.quit();
}
public static void printTag(WebElement tag, String space) {
java.util.List<WebElement> list = tag.findElements(By.xpath("./*"));
if (list==null) {
System.out.println(space+"<"+tag.getTagName()+"/>");
} else {
System.out.println(space+"<"+tag.getTagName()+">");
for (WebElement child: list) {
printTag(child,space+" ");
}
System.out.println(space+"</"+tag.getTagName()+">");
}
}
}
Compile and run the program, you will see that all elements of the Web page are dumped in the output:
C:\fyicenter> javac -classpath \
.;\fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar \
DumpElements.java
C:\fyicenter> java -classpath \
.;\fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar;\
\fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\guava-25.0-jre.jar;\
\fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okhttp-3.11.0.jar;\
\fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okio-1.14.0.jar;\
\fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\commons-exec-1.3.jar \
DumpElements Chrome
<html>
<head>
<meta>
</meta>
<meta>
</meta>
...
<link>
</link>
<title>
</title>
<script>
</script>
<script>
</script>
...
<link>
</link>
<script>
</script>
<link>
</link>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div>
<p>
</p>
<p>
<a>
</a>
</p>
<p>
<a>
</a>
</p>
<p>
...
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The output looks good. But element attributes are not included in the output. See the next tutorial on how the dump HTML attributes.
⇒ Dump Element Attributes with JavascriptExecutor in Java
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