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"Table Footer Should Contain" should take into account <th> elements

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
html, python
Domain
testing-qa, web-dev

Research direction

Start in src/SeleniumLibrary/keywords/tableelement.py at the Table Footer Should Contain implementation around lines 202–203. Reproduce the keyword with a valid containing elements, then verify that footer tables using either or are accepted.

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Description

Table Footer Should Contain is always looking for <td> tag within <tfoot>:

https://github.com/robotframework/SeleniumLibrary/blob/44a41f0a8ce719c928cd9d7fe7b33b3998006ee3/src/SeleniumLibrary/keywords/tableelement.py#L202-L203

but it's valid to have <th> tags there also. Example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/tfoot

Can we have this keyword fixed to take into account <th> tags as well?

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