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Webdriver how to find the parent field set element of a given element using Xpath

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I have a HTML like the one below

<fieldset id='fs1'>
  <legend>Basic Details</legend>
  <div>
    <input type='text' id='txt1'/>
    <input type='text' id='txt2'/>
  </div>
</fieldset>

I can get to the textboxes by saying

driver.findElement(By.id("txt1"));

Now, I want my webdriver to check if this textbox (or any other element at this stage) is the child of a fieldset. In other words, I want to find the parent "fieldset" tag of a given element.

And I need to use xpath and nothing else.

Now, I have tried using ("..") as my xpath query, which will return me the Div parent, and i have to keep doing it until I hit the fieldset. I just wonder if there is a straight forward solution. Can anyone suggest an xpath query which will help me do what I have explained?

Thanks, Sriram

You're looking for the ancestor:: axis, which includes the parent, grandparent, etc. all the way up the tree. In particular:

ancestor::fieldset[1]

will give you the nearest enclosing fieldset element ancestor for the current context element (or an empty node set if the context element isn't inside a fieldset).


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