Question

How is it possible to locale Selenium WebElement that is next to certain link?

I have this kind of source code

    <a href="/url.com" >
Link text
 </a>
<ul>
<li class="dir">THIS LIST ELEMENT I WANT TO LOCATE
  <ul>
    <li>

If the url is not nessesary in locating, feel free to tell me better way! I have had no luck with counting elements, because amount of them varies based on mouse moves. I use Selenium Java.

Answer 1

Using xpath You can locate.

"//a[text()='Link text']/following-sibling::ul/li[@class='dir']"

I assume that a and ul tags are siblings. If those are not siblings then also you can achieve that by modifying above xpath slightly.

"//a[text()='Link text']/../following-sibling::ul/li[@class='dir']"