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chris stewart
chris stewart

Reputation: 27

Clicking an element having same class name as others

I am trying to locate and click an element which is having same className as other elements. I am unable to differentiate that element from other to click that element. Here is the HTML code of that element:

<a href="/category/men/N-fh7rea" class="accord-header">
  Men
</a>

In this code, classname is same as others elements and text "Men" is also same. So made an Xpath of this: 

//a[@class='accord-header' AND contains(text(),'Men') ]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 931

Answers (2)

Marcin Grudziąż
Marcin Grudziąż

Reputation: 23

if you can't find any difference you can always count whith one, from the same objects interest you. If its for example 3rd element, save all of them as a list using findElements, and then get third element from it.

List<WebElement> elems = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[@class='accord-header' and @href='/category/men/N-fh7rea' and contains(.,'Men')]"));
WebElement elementThatYouLookedFor = elems.get(2);

If You need to click all of elements of this kind just use foreach loop:

List<WebElement> elems = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[@class='accord-header' and @href='/category/men/N-fh7rea' and contains(.,'Men')]"));
for(WebElement we : elems){
we.click(); //or any other operation
}

Upvotes: 0

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193108

Tweak the xpath a bit and use :

//a[@class='accord-header' and @href='/category/men/N-fh7rea']

You can get more granular and use : 

//a[@class='accord-header' and @href='/category/men/N-fh7rea' and contains(.,'Men')]

You can alos use : 

//a[@class='accord-header' and @href='/category/men/N-fh7rea'][normalize-space()='Men']

Upvotes: 3

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