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    <p>I am trying to find the children of an already found element. The problem I am having is that I can seem to only get all descendants of an existing element.</p> <p>For example, given the following HTML snippet (you may recognize this as a bootstrap dropdown menu).</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="dropdown"&gt; &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu"&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Action&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Another action&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Something else here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="divider"&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="dropdown-submenu"&gt; &lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;More options&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu"&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Second level link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Second level link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Second level link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Second level link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a tabindex="-1" href="#"&gt;Second level link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>I already have the existing WebElement to the dropdown menu</p> <pre><code>WebElement dropdown = driver.findElementBy(By.cssSelector(".dropdown &gt; .dropdown-menu"); </code></pre> <p>And I am trying to get a handle to all the child li's of the outer most menu. Originally I was doing the following</p> <pre><code>List&lt;WebElement&gt; menuItems = dropdown.findElements(By.cssSelector(" &gt; li &gt; a"); </code></pre> <p>assuming it would result in a final selector being built</p> <pre><code>.dropdown &gt; .dropdown-menu &gt; li &gt; a </code></pre> <p>However, this throws an exception</p> <pre><code>Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler$UnknownServerException: An invalid or illegal string was specified </code></pre> <p>Doing the following doesn't throw an exception but returns all descendants ... not just the children. The cound of menuItems is 10 instead of 5.</p> <pre><code>List&lt;WebElement&gt; menuItems = dropdown.findElements(By.cssSelector("li &gt; a"); </code></pre> <p>So I guess my ultimate question is there a way to use By.cssSelector to get just the direct children of an already found node?</p> <p>XPATH is not an allowable solution.</p>
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    1. COI don't know whether this would work...try `dropdown.findElements(By.cssSelector(".dropdown > li >a"))`
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    2. CO@MrTi ... i will give that a try tomorrow. maybe the findElements includes itself in the context of the search.
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    3. COWhat happens if you run `$$(".dropdown > .dropdown-menu > li > a")` in Chrome's Developer Console? It'll run the CSS selector for you and return the elements it finds.
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