title: How to get the exact number of rows in webtable in Selenium WebDriver using Java
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  <p>How to get the exact number of rows in webtable using xpath in webdriver using Java. Using the below xpath i am able to the count with header also. I don't want the count to include the header row and get the count of a webtable.</p>
  
  <pre><code>//table[@id='ctl00_MasterPlaceHolder_GrdHistory']/tbody/tr
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  <p>HTML Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;table id="ctl00_MasterPlaceHolder_GrdHistory" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="color:#333333;width:100%;"&gt;
  &lt;tbody&gt;
  &lt;tr style="color:Black;background-color:#DFC065;font-weight:bold;"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;"   onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$0')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$1')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$2')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$3')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$4')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$5')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$6')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$7')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$8')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;"  onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$9')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$10')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$11')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$12')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 247, 234); text-decoration: none;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$13')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color:#FBF7EA;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$14')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
  &lt;tr style="background-color:#FBF7EA;" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MasterPlaceHolder$GrdHistory','Select$15')" onmouseout="javascript:setMouseOutColor(this);" onmouseover="javascript:setMouseOverColor(this);"&gt;
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  <p>Is this possible, if so then how do i get the count without including the header row in the count. Please help me on this. Help will be appreciated.</p>