Selenium read a table and write into a file line by line

Question

I am looking for the help to read a table span using selenium code and write span into the file, following is my html code

<table>
<tbody><tr>
<tr>
<td><span>
FIRST
</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>SECOND</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>THIRD</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tbody>
</table> 

I need to write FIRST SECOND THIRD on a file in java.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I suppose you have located/found the table WebElement. Then you can get span elements content like this:

List<WebElement> spanElements = tableElement.findElements(By.ByTagName("span"));

for (WebElement element : spanElements) {
    String spanContent = element.getText();
    //save it to a collection or a StringBuilder, then write it to a file
}

Having a look at this and this might help.

Answer 2

1) XPath that gets all text is:

//span/text()

2) in java code you may type something like

String text = selenium.getText("xpath=//span");