.
### Step 4 – Add the Succeeding Child Elements Using the Appropriate Predicates
The next element we need is the second | . Applying the rules from Steps 2 and 3, we arrive at the XPath shown below.
Now that we have the correct XPath locator, we can access the cell and read its inner text using the code below. This assumes you have saved the HTML page as “newhtml.html” inside your C drive.
```
public static void main(String[] args) {
String baseUrl = "https://demo.guru99.com/test/write-xpath-table.html";
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(baseUrl);
String innerText = driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]")).getText();
System.out.println(innerText);
driver.quit();
}
```
## Accessing Nested Tables
The same principles apply to nested tables. **Nested tables are tables placed inside another table**. An example is shown below.
To access the cell with the text “4-5-6” using the parent/child and predicate ideas from the previous section, we can compose the XPath shown below.
The WebDriver code below retrieves the inner text of the targeted cell.
```
public static void main(String[] args) {
String baseUrl = "https://demo.guru99.com/test/accessing-nested-table.html";
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(baseUrl);
String innerText = driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td[2]")).getText();
System.out.println(innerText);
driver.quit();
}
```
The output below confirms that the inner table was successfully accessed.
## Using Attributes as Predicates
If the element sits deep inside the HTML, where counting siblings becomes painful, we can use that element’s unique attribute instead.
In the example below, the “New York to Chicago” cell is buried far inside the Mercury Tours homepage.
We can use the table’s unique attribute (width=”270″) as the predicate. **Attributes are used as predicates by prefixing them with the @ symbol**. In the example above, the “New York to Chicago” cell is located in the first | of the fourth |