[FIXED] Find an element by text and get xpath - selenium webdriver junit

Issue

I have a table with 9 rows and 6 columns in my webpage. I want to search for a text "MakeGoodDisabled-Programwise_09_44_38_461(n)" and get the xpath of the cell. I have used the following but it fails because it is not able to find the text on the page. Can you please help? I am using Selenium Webdriver Junit to code this.

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

Iterator < WebElement > itr = links.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext()) {
 String test = itr.next().getText();

 if (test.equals("MakeGoodDisabled-Programwise_09_44_38_461(n)")) {
  String xpath = driver.findElement(By.name(test)).getAttribute("xpath");
  System.out.println(xpath);
 }
}

Solution

My intention is to find a text in a table and get the corresponding next column value in the same row. I thought that I will replace the column number found by fetching the xpath with the column number I want. is there a better way to do it

Of course there's a way. Here's one possible solution.

Get all the rows:

While (iterate over row)
     While(Iterate over column)
           if(column.Text=='YOUR_MATCH'){
             int voila=column.Index
           }
    }
}

Now you can simply move to that particular index for the other rows; or you could use xpath like .../tr/td[voila] to retrieve all cells for that particular column.

I've written an approach, please don't take to be real-working-code!

Answered By - coding_idiot