How to get FIRST level children via Selenium-CodePudding

I have seen quite a few replies but for some reason NONE of them work and they always return all the children not just FIRST level

Here is one such answer: How to get first layer sub elements only in python selenium

They all suggest a CSS selector as in using nth-child(##)

Here is my data:

<**table**>
    <**tbody**>
        <**tr**>   // I want to only get this
            <**td**>td 1</td>
            <**tr**><td>Nested 1</td></**tr**>  // don't want this tr
            <**td**>td 2<**/td**>
            <**tr**><**/tr**>  // don't want this
            <**/tr**>
            <**tr**>   // I want to only get this
                <**td**>td 3<**/td**>
                <**tr**><**/tr**>  // don't want this
                <td>td 4</td>
                <tr></tr>  // don't want this
            </tr>
    <**/tbody**>
<**/table**>

CodePudding user response：

Best practice is to put an id field on each element, so that such problems become trivial. If you can, do that, so that your selector is just #my-id.

However, barring that you have to do some kind of awkward selector. nth-child would work as long as you are certain that the element you want is fixed. In this case table > tbody > tr:nth-child(1)

Barring that, you're out of luck in your exact case.

CodePudding user response：

Unfortunately , I do not own the HTML code and as such must live with it. I tried "table > tbody > tr:nth-child(1)" and it does not work. It gives me all descendants, rather than direct descendants :-(