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I'm generating a List of WebElements with:

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.className("name"));

Now I'd like to get subelements from each element in elements. I tried solutions like 

WebElement element = elements.get(0).findElement(By.xpath("/x"));

where x is the tagname of each element in elements. But this searches in the complete active frame and not only in the subelements of elements.get(0)

Any idea?

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  • What do you want to achieve here? – Paras Jun 04 '16 at 14:02
  • I would like to find a WebElement, which is a child (child like child in XML) of another given WebElement. What I know about the child is the relative position to it's parent. – user3561614 Jun 04 '16 at 14:14
  • every element inside `elements` list is what you are looking for. So you now have the `WebElement` that you are looking for. – Paras Jun 04 '16 at 14:31
  • This is only true for my example. In fact I'm looking for some special childs, which I can locate with XPath relative to the WebElements I have (all elements in elements). – user3561614 Jun 04 '16 at 14:35
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    You might want to have a look at [Locating child nodes of WebElements in selenium](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10520294/locating-child-nodes-of-webelements-in-selenium). It involves using a *relative* XPath expression. – halfbit Jun 04 '16 at 16:10
  • That I was looking for, could you write this as answer so that I can accept it? – user3561614 Jun 04 '16 at 16:28

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Probably all that you need is change the code to :

WebElement element = elements.get(0).findElement(By.xpath(".//x")); //this would search any **x** as a sub-child of your list's elements
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