HtmlTable element doesnot return correct tbody rows

[ravi]

Hi,
There is table in a page, It has more that 1 rows. rows are displayed in TBody tag. but the Tbody, TR and TD's are not closed.
I have written code to retrieve table rows count , once have the rowcount i can select specific row from the row count. but when I try to retrieve row count, the row count is given as 1 and the value in the last TD from last Tbody is retrieved always.

My page has below code for table

<table width="100%" class="datatable' id="detailtable" >
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<td>
<td>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<td>
<td>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<td>
<td>
</table>

[Nikolai]

Hello ravi,

The reason you are no getting the correct row count is the fact that our HTML parser cannot find where your TBody, TR and TD closing tags are. Since the parsing is not successful the information presented is not accurate. In general every html element should be either self closing or have a closing tag. The example below in considered as a "bad" html and although the browser is not throwing errors such html creates a huge problems not only for automation but also for CSS styles and DOM manipulating JavaScript functions.

The only work around I can think of here is to add JS function in your page that will return the correct row count or other row information you may need and called it from your test.

Hope this helps.

Greetings,
Nikolai
the Telerik team