I already tried using the ">" syntax but selenium does not accept it, I know there is a way to get it using Xpath but our entire project is written using CSS selectors.

I am trying to store a list that will contain all immediate children of an element but not their children (descendants), when I use the "*" syntax I get all the element's descendants.

I already tried using the ">" syntax but selenium does not accept it, I know there is a way to get it using Xpath but our entire project is written using CSS selectors.

I am trying to store a list that will contain all immediate children of an element but not their children (descendants), when I use the "*" syntax I get all the element's descendants.

• javascript
• css
• selenium
• webdriver
• selenium-webdriver

• Do you mean that body > * does not give you all direct descendants of the body tag in Selenium? – jro Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 12:32
• Can you give an example of the CSS selector you are using. In Selenium RC we've got most of our code using CSS selectors with no issue so I'd be surprised if in Selenium2 they've taken a step backwards. – Stephen Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 12:38
• @jro , I've tried using 'someWebElement.findElement(By.cssSelector(">*"))' The exception thrown is: "invalidElementStateException". – Shiran Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 12:59

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You should specify a tag to start from... if you want "all element's immediate children", you would simply get all elements, which isn't really what you want.

To get "all immediate children of an element but not their children" for body, use body > *.

Or another example, to get all direct descendants of <div id='question'>, use div#question > *.