Getting WebDriver from IWebElement

Question

Is it possible to get WebDriver from IWebElement?

I need the following extension:

public static bool HasFocus(this IWebElement e)
{
    var driver = ((????)e).WebDriver;

    var activeElement = driver.SwitchTo().ActiveElement();
    return Equals(activeElement, e);
}

But don't know is it possible to cast the IWebElement to some type to get WebDriver.

Answer 1

The best way to get the WebDriver from an IWebElement is to distinguish whether the Object type is WebElementProxy or not, like this:

if (this.webElement.GetType().ToString() == 
    "OpenQA.Selenium.Support.PageObjects.WebElementProxy")
{
 this.WebDriver = ((IWrapsDriver)this.webElement
                  .GetType().GetProperty("WrappedElement")
                  .GetValue(this.webElement, null)).WrappedDriver;
}
else
{
  this.WebDriver = ((IWrapsDriver)this.webElement).WrappedDriver;
}

Answer 2

I had recently the same problem but found out it's possible :)

This made my day: var driver = ((IWrapsDriver)e).WrappedDriver;

Note:If you use PageFactory to get IWebElement it's NOT possible then.