How to Get this ID

Question

I'm doing an automation using Selenium WebDriver and I'm getting all the elements of a Table.

I used the code below:

var qntd= driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//*[@id='dataTable']/tbody/tr")).Skip(3);

I then realized that each element generated an Id that is not of the Id as shown in the Html

I tried to retrieve this id with a query but I could not because the return is the HTML Id attribute

var query = from a in qntd
                select a.GetAttribute("Id");

Where does this ID come from and how do I retrieve it?

user_5098168 · Answer

It's a special id generated by the driver itself, not html property. You can use type cast to RemoteWebElement and then get this value using reflection as it is protected. But hardly this is the thing you need in your tests.

https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/?topic=html/P_OpenQA_Selenium_Remote_RemoteWebElement_Id.htm

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