Selenium Get First Child Element

Demo Website:  http://www.automationpractice.com

We will click on the women tab using first child.

CSS Selector First Child Selenium

Step 1: Select Parent

ul.menu-content 

Now here above selector covers the entire body of the three tabs under which they are present. So in this case it is the parent.

 Step 2: Select all child

Under this ul tag, there are 3 li tags which are the respective tags of Women, Dresses, and T-shirts.

ul.menu-content>li 

Above selector will return all 3 elements.

Step 3: Select first child

Now use :first-child to select the first child

ul.menu-content>li:first-child

Selenium XPath First Child

Step 1: Select Parent

//ul[contains(@class,'menu-content')]

Step 2: Select all Child

//ul[contains(@class,'menu-content')]/li

Step 3: Select First Child using Index

//ul[contains(@class,'menu-content')]/li[1]

Example

public class AppTest 
{
    WebDriver driver;
	
    @BeforeClass
    public void befClass()
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",System.getProperty("user.dir") + "//drivers//chromedriver");
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get("http://www.automationpractice.com");
    }
	
    @Test
    public void LoginTest()
    {
        WebElement firstChildCSS = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("ul.menu-content>li:first-child"));
        WebElement firstChildXPath = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("//ul[contains(@class,'menu-content')]/li[1]"));
        
        firstChildCSS.click();
        firstChildXPath.click();
    }
}