Table classes

When building the page object classes, there will frequently be components on a page that are common to multiple pages, but not all pages, and rather than including the similar locators and methods in each class, users can build a common class for just that portion of the page. HTML tables are a typical example of a common component that can be classed.

So, what users can do is create a generic class for the common table rows and columns, extend the subclasses that have a table with this new class, and pass in the dynamic ID or locator to the constructor when extending the subclass with that table class.

Let's take a look at how this is done:

1. Create a new page object class for the table component in the application, but do not derive it from the base class in the framework
2. In the constructor of the new class, add a parameter of the type WebElement, requiring...