Get Child object of a given element

Hi, When using the Get WebElements keyword am getting a list of elements that fits my locator. Each element contains a child object, how can I get the child one?

example:

<a class="yt-uix-sessionlink spf-link " data-sessionlink="itct=CGEQlDUYAyITCOeh4-OEvM8CFQKkHAodw6QFfSiOHjIGZy1oaWdoWg9GRXdoYXRfdG9fd2F0Y2g" href="/watch?v=5i-94at2SDA" aria-hidden="true">
<div class="yt-thumb video-thumb">
<span class="yt-thumb-simple">
<img height="110" width="196" data-ytimg="1" alt="" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5i-94at2SDA/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&w=196&h=110&stc=true&jpg444=true&jpgq=90&sp=68&sigh=YqxUUk-Z6HgOYPKBVVuMA9o1iaU" onload=";__ytRIL(this)">
</span>
</div>
<span class="**video-time**" aria-hidden="true">**3:34**</span>
/a>

I want to get the “video-time” inside a random a> element, is it possible?

[praveendvd]

Yes, this gets asked now and then. Also it’s technically possible to implement this in many ways. But unfortunately no one has seen this important enough to implement. Currently my development time is used to help https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser

There is direct message, you can use execute script to create a varaible.

so i created a keyword

  Validate child element exists

it takes two argument parent(Webelement) and child(Xpath) to search for child inside the parent.

  Validate child element exists    ${parent}    ./h3

Assuming parent xpath to as : //ul[@id="top_menu"] , the above code will search for equalent xpath //ul[@id="top_menu"]/./h3 note taht context is parent and not root

so this will be equalent to xpath

*** Test Cases ***
Google Search
    [Tags]    you    probably    do    not    have    this    many    tags    in    real    life
    Wait Until Element Is Visible  CSS=[id="introduction-container"]
    ${parent}=    Get webelement    xpath=//*[@id="introduction-container"]
	${result}=    Validate child element exists    ${parent}    ./h3   
    Should Be True     ${result}

	
*** Keywords ***
Validate child element exists 
    [Arguments]    ${parent}   ${child} 
    ${child}=    Execute Javascript    return window.document.evaluate( arguments[1], arguments[0], null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null ).singleNodeValue;     ARGUMENTS    ${parent}    ${child}
    [Return]    ${child}

[lukasgebhard]

For SeleniumLibrary versions 5.0 and above, you can use chained locators.