[FIXED] Selenium get only child elements from current parent

Issue

I'm trying to get data from an HTML like this:

<div>
  <h4 id='id1'>...</h4>
  <ul>
    <li></li>
    <li></li>
  </ul>
</div>
<div>
  <h4 id='id2'>...</h4>
  <ul> ... </ul>
</div>

The goal is to get the <li> values from every <h4>. To get this I've tried something like this:

divs = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div//h4[starts-with(@id,'id_')]")
for h4 in divs:
    title = h4.text
    # Get <li> from each div
    for value in h4._parent.find_elements_by_tag_name('li'): #<-- It gives me all <li> in the page
        # TODO ...

Here I'm trying to get all <h4> tags and then go to the parent (the <div>) and find the <li> tags existing only in that parent. But I retrieve all <li> tags.

I've searched over the internet and I've found a couple of question in StackOverflow like Get child element using xpath selenium python or selenium find child's child elements where it says to set the context, so I've tried this:

for value in h4._parent.find_elements_by_xpath('.//li'):
                                                 ^

But it gives me the same numbers of elements.

So, I'm misunderstanding something?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

//div[./h4[starts-with(@id,'id')]]//li

To get all li's of all div that contains an element h4 with a certain id starting try this.

//div[./h4] basically means div with h4 element inside 1 layer deep.

Answered By - Arundeep Chohan