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    copied!<p>Had a brief scan at the source code, not sure what's the best practice for this.</p> <p>For example, say I have a page object 'DummyPage', which has two panel elements <code>TopPanel</code> and <code>BottomPanel</code>. Each of the panel has some elements, which are found by <code>TopPanel.FindElement()</code> instead of <code>driver.FindElement()</code>. How to apply Page Factory for this?</p> <p>I'm aware of that <code>PageFactory.InitElements(ISearchContext, Object)</code> takes in <code>ISearchContext</code>, however, I'm not sure how can I use it for the page and the panel elements in one class.</p> <pre class="lang-c# prettyprint-override"><code>public class DummyPage { private IWebDriver driver; public DummyPage(IWebDriver driver) { this.driver = driver; } public IList&lt;IWebElement&gt; DummyLinks { get { return driver.FindElements(By.CssSelector(".some-dummy-links")); } } public IWebElement TopPanel { get { return driver.FindElement(By.Id("top-panel")); } } public IWebElement BottomPanel { get { return driver.FindElement(By.Id("bottom-panel")); } } public IWebElement FooInTopPanel { get { return TopPanel.FindElement(By.CssSelector(".something")); } } public IWebElement FooInBottomPanel { get { return BottomPanel.FindElement(By.CssSelector(".something")); } } } public class DummyPageWithPageFactory { public DummyPageWithPageFactory(IWebDriver driver) { PageFactory.InitElements(driver, this); } [FindsBy(How = How.CssSelector, Using = ".some-dummy-links")] public IList&lt;IWebElement&gt; DummyLinks { get; private set; } [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "top-panel")] public IWebElement TopPanel { get; private set; } [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "bottom-panel")] public IWebElement BottomPanel { get; private set; } //public IWebElement FooInTopPanel { get; private set; } //public IWebElement FooInBottomPanel { get; private set; } } </code></pre> <p>If I use <code>driver.FindElement()</code> for all instances and concatenate all locators, I might be facing another situation, that all locators are too long and I can't use variables within the C# attributes.</p> <pre><code>[FindsBy(How = How.CssSelector, Using = "#top-panel .blah .blah .super-long-blah .something")] [FindsBy(How = How.CssSelector, Using = "#top-panel .blah .blah .super-long-blah .something-new")] [FindsBy(How = How.CssSelector, Using = "#bottom-panel .blah .blah .super-long-blah .something")] </code></pre>
 

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