Webdriver.io - Use selector to get all grand children?

Question

Using webdriver.io....

For

<table>
  <tbody>
    <td></td>

I can get all the td elements with $$('td'). But I can't with $('table').$$('td'). Instead I have to do $('tbody').$$('td'). Why is this? Or did I do something incorrectly?

Answer 1

The implementation of webdriverIo is slightly different from selenium.

In webdriverIO $('table').$$('td') will check for direct child 'td under 'table', and as td is not a direct child it won't return anything.

instead, try:

$('table').$$(' td') (See if this works)

or

$$('table td')

Space in 'CSS' is similar to // in xpath

Better raise issue with webdriver io