Retrieving number of rows in a table

Hi

I am new to Selenium. I am using Selenium with Java. I would like to retrieve number of rows of a table and need to retrieve content of each row of a specific column to validate. I can identify the table only with "id" property. But that ID property is not consistent. And I don't have any other property to identify the table.

Please help me out.

Thanks in advance

hi,

checkout this post , may be this will help you

https://seleniumforum.forumotion.net/selenium-ide-discussion-f3/how-to-store-number-of-rows-of-a-table-t69.htm?highlight=table

Best of luck.

Bye

Thanks for the quick response. I have seen the post. But I dont under stand how to use this statement.
I am trying in the following way
Selenium sel = new Selenium();
s=sel.storeXpathCount("");
But I coudnt see any predefined method called storeXpathCount with Selenium. Do I need any Jar file for this.

Thanks in Advance

yes , you have to call selenium-server.jar into your code so that all function/API of selenium core can be accessible to you.

Checkout this post to get an idea:
https://seleniumforum.forumotion.net/selenium-rc-discussion-f4/can-t-make-rc-code-to-run-t165.htm

Hi Adviser,

thanks for the quick reply I have added all the libraries. I am able to see sel.getXpathCount. But I am not able to see sel.storeXpathCount.

Actually I wanted to validated a text field value and as well as a table cell value.

I have added the following jar files
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

import junit.framework.TestCase;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer;

Could you tell me the exact steps or code for this.
Sorry to ask too much in details .

Yeah, just use:

int rowCount = sel.getXpathCount(XPathToTRElements).intValue();

getXpathCount returns a Number object, but ints are usually easier to deal with in circumstances like this. Also, if you are more interested in the aggregate contents of a column than the number of rows, you can also implicitly wildcard address all table cells in all rows by using an XPath like pathToHeadOfTable/tr/td[x] where x is the cell index across all rows. Be aware that spans may mess up using a path like that though.

Edit: scratch that, I forgot Selenium doesn't have a nice way of dumping out content of a wildcard path like that. So yeah, you'd have to loop through the rows with getXPathCount() and pull out the individual tds to validate 1 by 1.