how to find elements inside a selector which is only element not elements using sb method?

[SSujitX]

Here in this code

from selenium base import SB url = 'https://www.sortlist.co.uk/s/360-degree-advertising/united-kingdom-gb' css_selector = 'li.list-reset' successfully_filled = 0 with SB(uc=True, incognito=True) as sb: try: print(">= Opening main URL...") sb.driver.uc_open_with_reconnect(url, 3) sb.wait_for_element_visible(css_selector, timeout=60) print(">= Extracting all agency links...") all_links = [] container_element = sb.find_element('div[class="container-lg"]') elements = container_element.find_elements('a[class="text-secondary-900 layout-row gap-x-8 cursor-pointer"]') for element in elements: link = element.get_attribute('href') all_links.append(link) print(f">= Found {len(all_links)} links. Processing each link...") except Exception as e: print(f">= Failed to open main URL or extract links: {e}") print(f">= Successfully filled {successfully_filled} contact forms.") 

issue is here,

 container_element = sb.find_element('div[class="container-lg"]') elements = container_element.find_elements('a[class="text-secondary-900 layout-row gap-x-8 cursor-pointer"]') 

What is the way to first find an element and then inside the element find all elements? I checked it, and it does not work like this. I found a solution for using a new selector.

 elements = sb.find_elements('div[class="container-lg"] a[class="text-secondary-900 layout-row gap-x-8 cursor-pointer"]') for element in elements: link = element.get_attribute('href') all_links.append(link) 

[mdmintz]

Once you do WebElement.find_element(*) or WebElement.find_elements(*), that is using the regular Selenium API, (not the SeleniumBase one), which means no more auto-detecting the selector type, meaning that you have to include the by arg, which comes first before the selector. (Eg. by="css selector" / by=By.CSS_SELECTOR).

So instead of calling WebElement.find_elements(by="css selector", value=selector) via the regular Selenium API, you could use the complete selector from sb.find_elements(selector).

[SSujitX]

Well, I use the sb.find_elements(selector) method. But I want to mention something. Suppose I want to select a single element and then select multiple elements inside that single element. We can use a table as an example. First, find an element ('table'), then inside the table, find elements ('td') like that. How can I do that?

[mdmintz]

Use the full selector of the element(s) you want to find from the beginning, rather than finding one element, and then finding more elements inside of it.

[luey-punch]

I have tried these here:

def find_buttons_with_review_ids(self, uniq_id): """  Finds all buttons with both data-review-id and data-href attributes.  """ base_path = ( f"{BASE_XPATH}div/div[1]/div/div/div[2]//button" ) elements = self.find_elements(base_path) print(f"rev_elements {elements}") reviewers = [] for element in elements: review_id = element.get_attribute("data-review-id") print(f"\nreview_id {review_id}") if review_id: review_divs = element.find_element("//div") print(f"\nreview_divs {review_divs}") review_spans = element.find_element("//span") print(f"\nreview_spans {review_spans}") return reviewers

I get an error saying invalid argument: invalid locator
Adding the 'by' param returns WebElement.find_elements() got multiple values for argument 'by'

Even using element.find_elements("//span","xpath") still throws an error

[mdmintz]

As I mentioned in #2895 (comment), the by arg comes before the selector with the original Selenium API.
WebElements use the original Selenium API.
Would be: element.find_elements("xpath", "//span")

[luey-punch]

Thank you. That fixed it. I am still shocked I used every permutation except this one. I did not see this in the docs. Would be nice if we can update this in docs as it is a common scenario