Elements
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The upstream library returns RemoteWebElement instances when dealing with elements.
This means we lose the extra upstream functionality, so this library wraps elements in a custom class and ensures that methods returning a RemoteWebElement retain extra functionality.
As an example, this isn’t possible upstream:
foreach ($browser->elements("table tr") as $tr) {
echo $tr->getAttribute("title") . "\n";
foreach ($tr->elements("td") as $td) {
echo "\t" . $td->getAttribute("title") . "\n";
}
}
Because the first call to elements() will return RemoteWebElement instances, that don’t recognise the elements() method on line 3.
Parents
The Element class also has a parent() method for accessing parent elements:
<table class='one'>
<tr class='list'>
<td id='album'>Album</td>
<td id='artist'>Artist</td>
</tr>
</table>
$td = $browser->element("#artist");
$tr = $td->parent(); # This will return the <tr> element
$td = $browser->element("#artist");
$table = $td->parent(".one"); # This will return the <table> element