CSS selector. How to find the parent element

Question

Is there a way to find the parent element in the CSS Selector? I am using below code but I am not getting the parent.

WebElement we=dr.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[id='gf-BIG']:parent"));

I know there is a way in XPath, but please let me know how we can find the parent in the CSS Selector.

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J_Coder 23 june At 4:28 am

2 answers

If it helps, here is an example how to get it by xpath

WebElement parentElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='gf-BIG']/parent::parentElementTag"));

parentElementTag - maybe div / span / tr - depends on your case

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Irina Livkovich 27 nov. 15 at 14:14

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-23T04:46:26+0000

Referring to Is there a CSS parent selector? , there is no parent selector in CSS. Leave the "get parent" part in XPath:

WebElement we = dr.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[id='gf-BIG']"));
WebElement parent = we.findElement(By.xpath(".."));