I want to avoid using XPath where possible when finding elements in webdriver, but be able to reference child elements from already found elements e.g.
For the following html:
<div id="myelement">
<table class="myclass">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>something</td>
<td>
<table>
<tbody>
...
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
...
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
I have a css expression:
driver.find_elements('div#myelement table.myclass > tbody > tr')
I want to break this up into the table element and the rows, without having to refer back to the table expression. e.g. for XPath:
table = driver.find_element(:xpath, "//div[@id='myelement']//table[@classname='myclass']")
rows = table.find_elements(:xpath, 'tbody/tr')
I've tried the following, which works using JQuery $('div#myelement table.myclass').find('> tbody > tr')
table = driver.find_element(:css, 'div#myelement table.myclass')
rows = table.find_elements(:css, '> tbody > tr')
This causes an error `assert_ok': An invalid or illegal string was specified (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError)
Removing the first '>' of course works, however means decendant tbody's are selected and not just immediate children.
How can I do this correctly using just css?