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Israel Bautista
Israel Bautista

Reputation: 21

How to get a list of the <li> elements in an <ul> with Selenium in Ruby?

I'm using Selenium WebDriver I need to perform and action(click) on the first account item, do something, then come back and repeat the process again on the next item. It can potentially be up-to 90 account items so I'm trying to avoid hard coding all 90. any idea how to perhaps loop through the account-list?

<ul class="account-list">
  <li class="account-item">one item</li>
  <li class="account-item">two items</li>
  <li class="account-item">three items</li>
</ul>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2502

Answers (2)

titusfortner
titusfortner

Reputation: 4194

You can't iterate over a list of elements in Selenium because their object references will become invalid when the DOM changes (StaleElement exception), but you can do it by index number so long as the size of your list doesn't change 

elements = @driver.find_elements(css: ".account-item>a")    
elements.size.times do |i|
  @driver.find_element(css: ".account-list > li:nth-child(#{i})>a").click
  # Do something
  @driver.navigate.back
end

Upvotes: 1

Mesut GUNES
Mesut GUNES

Reputation: 7401

You can do it by getting the all elements by their css then iterate throutght the elements as following:

elems = driver.find_elements(:css => ".account-list > li")
url = driver.current_url

for i in 0..elems.size
 # wait until the element loads
 wait.until { driver.find_element(:css => ".account-list > li:nth-child(#{i})")}

 elems[i].click()
 #do your tests
 # ...

 # go back
 driver.navigate.to url     
end

Upvotes: 0

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