Find parent element

How do I get the parent element (or ancestor / ancestors ) of an element? The next element would also be usefull. I tried the following: element.GetAttribute("Ancestors") FindElement(By.XPath("./.."), element)

Both queries return null.

[huster-songtao]

@liljohnak many thanks

I search the parent node successfully using the session.

public static WindowsElement? GetParent(this WindowsDriver<WindowsElement> session, string xpath)
        {
            try
            {
                return session.FindElementByXPath($"{xpath.TrimEnd('/')}/parent::*");
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

The code above work well.

[trashbat]

Another workaround, using the element ID to build an XPath expression for the parent:

# Get the immediate parent:
xpath = f"//*[@RuntimeId='{element.id}']/parent::*"

# Get the first ancestor of type "Pane" named "foo":
xpath = f"//*[@RuntimeId='{element.id}']/ancestor::Pane[@Name='foo']"