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Alessio Dini
Alessio Dini

Reputation: 9

Ruby Watir: How open multiple links from a single page

I have this scenario:

I have multiple links on a single page , each link is inserted in a table. I extracted some

html code:

<td headers="record0_int1">
<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl00_PrimoLinkSSel"     title="Consulta la scheda dettagliata del bene con codice A241511" href="/secondasel.aspx?  id=815300&ida=241511&idp=473762&m=1&t=1">A241511</a>
</td>

<td headers="record1_int1">
<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl01_PrimoLinkSSel"     title="Consulta la scheda dettagliata del bene con codice A241512" href="/secondasel.aspx? id=815301&ida=241512&idp=473762&m=1&t=1">A241512</a>
</td>

What I'm looking for?

I need to:

1) get the id ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl00_PrimoLinkSSel , where for each link this ID changes only on a single number, example:

first id: ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl00_PrimoLinkSSel second id: ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl01_PrimoLinkSSel third id: ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl02_PrimoLinkSSel and so on

2) for each ID extracted I need to open the href link, if possible on a new page!

I'm trying all from yesterday , without any good result :(

Thank you all for each reply ;)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 538

Answers (1)

Justin Ko
Justin Ko

Reputation: 46836

First you can get all of the links by creating a collection based on the static part of the id:

links = browser.links(:id => /ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Primasel2_1_dlstPrimasel_ctl\d+_PrimoLinkSSel/)

Then you can iterate through the links to click each one. You can do it like a user and hold down the control button to open a new page:

links.each { |link| link.click(:control) }

Alternatively, you can also force a new window by adding the target="_blank" attribute to each link before clicking it.

links.each do |link|
  browser.execute_script('arguments[0].setAttribute("target", "_blank");', link)
  link.click
end

For Firefox, the second approach seemed to be more stable since it does not rely on native events.

Once you have the pages open, you can get a specific window to work with. For example:

browser.window(:title => 'the window title').use do
  puts browser.text
end

You could also iterate through the windows, say to output each title:

browser.windows.each do |window|
  window.use do
    puts window.title
  end
end

Upvotes: 4

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