["python","xpath","selenium"]
Selenium Webdriver finding an element in a sub-element

I am trying to search for an element in a sub-element with Selenium (Version 2.28.0), but selenium does not seem to limit its search to the sub-element. Am I doing this wrong or is there a way to use element.find to search a sub-element? For an example I created a simple test webpage with this code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <div class=div title=div1> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p class='test'>My first paragraph.</p> </div> <div class=div title=div2> <h1>My Second Heading</h1> <p class='test'>My second paragraph.</p> </div> <div class=div title=div3> <h1>My Third Heading</h1> <p class='test'>My third paragraph.</p> </div> </body> </html> My python (Version 2.6) code looks like this: from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() # Open the test page with this instance of Firefox # element2 gets the second division as a web element element2 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@title='div2']") # Search second division for a paragraph with a class of 'test' and print the content print element2.find_element_by_xpath("//p[@class='test']").text # expected output: "My second paragraph." # actual output: "My first paragraph." If I run: print element2.get_attribute('innerHTML') It returns the html from the second division. So selenium is not limiting its search to element2. I would like to be able to find a sub-element of element2. This post suggests my code should work Selenium WebDriver access a sub element but his problem was caused by a time-out issue. Can anyone help me understand what is happening here?
If you start an XPath expression with //, it begins searching from the root of document. To search relative to a particular element, you should prepend the expression with . instead: element2 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@title='div2']") element2.find_element_by_xpath(".//p[@class='test']").text