Loop through Web Elements and Click each link

Question

Hi my code works My goal is to loop through each element in the table and and click the element so i can go to the next page basically I want to do this

1 click element form drop down 2 //code some stuff 3 Go back 4 click next element from drop down 5 code some stuff and etc 

My code:

List<WebElement> CCTable = driver.findElements(By.id("companyIdBarCompListGrid_rows_scrollpane")); for ( WebElement client: CCTable) { System.out.println("\n"+client.getText().substring(0, 20)+"\n"); client.click(); Thread.sleep(10000); } 

My problem is that its finding and printing out the text in my **console in eclipse ** but it is not clicking on the link or each link.

I am trying to follow the suggestions here https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/12790/how-to-iterate-over-a-collection-of-items-in-selenium-webdriver but no success any help would be appreciated.

If I am doing something wrong please help me. Any help would be appreciated

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PP_OBJ_CycleData.CCdropdown(driver).click();

 List<WebElement> CCTable = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div#companyIdBarCompListGrid_rows_scrollpane table tbody tr[id*=companyIdBarCompListGrid_] td span div a")); // inner 4 loop for ( WebElement ccode: CCTable) { System.out.println("\n"+ccode.getText().substring(0, 20)+"\n"); System.out.println("Number of links: " + CCTable.size()); Thread.sleep(3000); ccode.click(); Thread.sleep(5000); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='companyIDBarContentPane']//span")); }// End Inner 4 loop PP_OBJ_CycleData.ReturnToSupport(driver); 

Also this is in eclipse console:

Seems that the get text is not getting the other company code name. and it not looping through again after it clicks the first name and i click i get org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document.

Answer 1

The problem is you're identifying the wrong thing

The ID points to the DIV. And there is just one DIV; nothing to iterate. And while the DIV is clickable, clicking the DIV does nothing.

Instead, you need to find the A tags. This can be very difficult in a table; and all the IDs aren't really helping.

Basically you want something to the effect of:

List<WebElement> CCTable = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div#companyIdBarCompListGrid_rows_scrollpane table tbody tr[id*=companyIdBarCompListGrid_] td span div a"); 

You may have to play with it. You can add this line right after the List declaration:

System.out.println("Number of links: " + CCTable.size()); 

When it matches your expectations, you've found the right findElements string.

Answer 2

Here is a working loop:

 String selector = "div#companyIdBarCompListGrid_rows_scrollpane table tbody tr[id*=companyIdBarCompListGrid_] td span div a"; int links = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(selector)).size(); System.out.println("Number of links: " + links); for (int i = 0; i < links; i++) { List<WebElement> CCTable = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(selector)); WebElement client = CCTable.get(i); System.out.println("\n"+client.getText().substring(0, 20)+"\n"); client.click(); // Things happen here }