Similar to other element types that we have seen in earlier sections, an HTML table is represented as WebElement. However, there are no table-specific methods that are available with the WebElement interface.
While working with tables, we can find the rows and cells effectively by using a set of the By class methods. In this recipe, we will see how to get rows and columns in table.
Let's create a simple test that will print data from a table, as shown in the following code example:
@Test
public void testWebTable() {
WebElement simpleTable = driver.findElement(By.id("items"));
// Get all rows
List<WebElement> rows = simpleTable.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
assertEquals(3, rows.size());
// Print data from each row
for (WebElement row : rows) {
List<WebElement> cols = row.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
for (WebElement col : cols) {
System.out.print(col.getText() + "\t");
}
System.out.println();
}
}