How to get all descendants of an element using webdriver?

Question

There is this element which has child elements, those child elements again have child elements and so on. I would like to get all elements that are descendants of the element. Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this one:

(Java)

List<WebElement> childs = rootWebElement.findElements(By.xpath(".//*")); 

(C#)

IReadOnlyList<IWebElement> childs = rootWebElement.FindElements(By.XPath(".//*")); 

Answer 2

Try this one

List<WebElement> allDescendantsChilds = rootWebElement.findElements(By.xpath("//tr[@class='parent']//*")); 

The above thing will gives you all descendant child elements (not only immediate child) of parent tr