Selenium - locating multiple elements with the same class name
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Selenium - locating multiple elements with the same class name
Hello there I am trying to locate multiple elements with the same className. The className and the body structure of the elements are the same but the texts, links and pictures are different.
<div class="dc-content-right clearfix"> (parent)
<div class="dc-item clearfix"> (child nodes)
<div class="dc-item clearfix">
<div class="dc-item clearfix">
Each of these child elements looks something like this:
<div class="dc-item clearfix">
<div class="dc-icon">
<div class="dc-info">
<h2>
<a href="http://www.avg.com/ww-en/free-antivirus-download">AVG AntiVirusFree 2015</a>
</h2>
Each child element has different text in the H2 tag. So once it is AVG AntiVirus Free 2015, then it is Internet Security .... and so on. So what I want to do is save all elements into a list and then work with them.
At first I save these elements intto a list of WebElements :
List <"WebElement"> list = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='dc-item clearfix']"));
Afterwards I want to iterate through the list and write the h2 text for each element on the screen:
for(WebElement i:superDiv)
System.out.println(i.findElement(By.xpath("//h2/a")).getText());
So the outcome should be a list of 3 different headings extracted from divs. The problem: the outcome is the list of 3 headings which are the same!
divs
AVG AntiVirus Free 2015
AVG AntiVirus Free 2015
AVG AntiVirus Free 2015
It looks like I located the same element 3 times. Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem? Thank you
3 Answers
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List<WebElement> list = driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//*[@class='dc-item clearfix']//h2/a"));
for(WebElement el : list)
System.out.println(el.getText());
ya, i misread the question. I have updated the xpath since, does the new one work?
– Cathal
Jul 15 '15 at 8:58
Yes it does work. Thank you. But the whole point was.. is it possible to first save the whole child element. List <"WebElement"> list = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='dc-item clearfix']")); and then acces the differnt parts of it. Something like list.get(1).findElement(By.xpath("//h2/a")).getText(). Do you know wheter something like this is even possible ?
– Zawe
Jul 15 '15 at 9:43
ah ok, gotcha. I dont know, but i would assume it is possible. trial and error is the only way you'll find out.
– Cathal
Jul 15 '15 at 10:12
That is also possible. You have to give xpath from child tag of that div element.
– Saritha G
Jul 15 '15 at 10:33
You can also try:-
List<WebElement> list = driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//*[@class='dc-info']//a"));
for(WebElement element : list)
System.out.println(element.getText());
If div tag does not contains id or class, then use like this
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[contains(@style,'height:50px')]"));
for(WebElement element : elements)
System.out.println(element.getText());
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Thank you, that will write all the text it can found in a child element, (links, descriptions, header...) I would like to access the h2 tag only.
– Zawe
Jul 15 '15 at 8:57