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Justin Ertley
Justin Ertley

Reputation: 93

Looping through multiple moveToElement in selenium/webdriver c#

I am trying to click through all of these nested links inside a mouse over web element. The first iteration works, but it stops after that. I've tried adding Thread.Sleep(xxxx); but that doesn't work either. Here's my method:

public static bool TestFindAssets()
    {
        bool result = false;
        Actions action = new Actions(driver);
        var findAssetsClick = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div/header/nav/ul/li[3]/a"));
        var home = driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Home"));
        try
        {

            for (int i = 1; i < 13; i++)
            {
                action.MoveToElement(findAssetsClick).Perform(); //Find Assets Link
                action.MoveToElement(driver.FindElement(By.XPath("xpath"))).Perform(); //By Type Link
                action.MoveToElement(driver.FindElement(By.XPath("otherPath"+i))).Click().Build().Perform(); //list of links

            }

             result = true;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Error occurred: ", ex);
            result = false;
        }

        return result;
    }

Again, this works for one iteration. Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2730

Answers (1)

Saifur
Saifur

Reputation: 16201

Instead of hard coded index number you should find the target elements with FindElements then loop though and click back and forth. Second think, you need to use proper wait time to make sure the elements are loaded properly. Third, Need to find the element on the fly cannot simply iterate through the collection and click back and forth. It will refresh the DOM and throw StaleElement reference exception.

Here is a sample test which is doing the same thing you are trying to do

public void ClickThroughLinks()
{
    Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.cnn.com/");
    //Maximize the window so that the list can be gathered successfully.
    Driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();

    //find the list
    By xPath = By.XPath("//h2[.='The Latest']/../li//a");
    IReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> linkCollection = Driver.FindElements(xPath);

    for (int i = 0; i < linkCollection.Count; i++)
    {
        //wait for the elements to be exist
        new WebDriverWait(Driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(xPath));

        //Click on the elements by index
        Driver.FindElements(xPath)[i].Click();
        Driver.Navigate().Back();
        Driver.Manage().Timeouts().SetPageLoadTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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