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Tree55Topz
Tree55Topz

Reputation: 1142

Finding and Clicking element in list - Selenium

I have been messing around with automating this options page, and since it provides a variety of options each with its own sub-options, I do not want to take the time to identify and declare all of the elements by their xpath(or CSS.. either or). So I have this reliable code that does a good job at finding the text identifier in the HTML tags.

public void selectAnOption(String option) {
        List<WebElement> choice = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='atcui-scrollPanel-wrapper']/ul/li"));
        for(WebElement e : choice){
            System.out.println(e.getText());
            if(e.getText().equals(option)){
                e.click();
                break;
            }
        }
    }

By running this I get a printout like

And so on.So boom! I know that they are identified, but my e.click() is not actually clicking. I get no errors when I start the test it just says it passed but the button was never actually clicked. Below is the HTML segment I am working with and you can see how nested it is.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 6207

Answers (2)

Norayr Sargsyan
Norayr Sargsyan

Reputation: 1868

For Java 8 and above you can use:

public void selectAnOption(String option) {
        List<WebElement> choice = driver.findElements(By.xpath("your_xpath"));
        choice
             .stream()
             .filter(e->e.getText().equals(option))
             .findFirst().get().click();
    }

Upvotes: 1

Tree55Topz
Tree55Topz

Reputation: 1142

Fixed it.. for anyone with a similar issue, I believe it lies in the fact that when this html code was developed, there were excess spaces (used for design purposes or fitting elements during development..maybe?) so I used .contains instead of .equals. duh!!

public void selectAnOption(String option) {
        List<WebElement> choice = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='atcui-scrollPanel-wrapper']/ul/li"));
        for(WebElement e : choice){
            System.out.println(e.getText());
            if(e.getText().contains(option)){
                e.click();
                break;
            }
        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

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