How can I effectively use the selenium base equivalent of element.find_element()?

[nwest-encoura]

I am refactoring some UI tests which were built with raw selenium.
The solution uses a page object model which largely returns web elements which can then do things like click or send_keys.

The problem with this is that I have an element, lets call it card, which I get by using a generic locator with card = driver.find_elements(By.ID, "card")[0].

I can then use this web element to click on the close button for example card.find_element(By.ID, "close-btn").

Is there a selenium base equivalent that lets me do a similar thing? Right now selenium base's find_elements returns web elements that must then utilize seleniums built in find_element methods, but I would much rather use selenium bases find_element method, and forego having to maintain a mixture of locators and methods.

[mdmintz]

Hello. In your example, it appears you're trying to find multiple elements with the same id, but the id should be unique to a web page, meaning that there shouldn't be more than one element with the same id. Second, instead of finding an element inside an element, just use a selector that matches the inner element that you're trying to find. Once you find a list of elements, each item is a WebElement object, which uses raw Selenium methods.

Note that SeleniumBase also has some list methods, (eg. self.click_visible_elements(SELECTOR)), which will click on every matching element.

[nwest-encoura]

I think I used ID just as an example. Most of the time I have to locate elements by css selector which are not unique to each element I am interacting with. It would be nice if selenium base had a custom class for WebElements so that we could do things such as sb.find_element("locator").click("locator"), currently I believe you need to do sb.find_element("locator").find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "locator").click()

[mdmintz]

Once you've found a WebElement, you have to use the WebElement methods. But every element on a page should be able to be found with a unique selector, without having to do two different find actions.