CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rubyxpathwatir
user2012677
user2012677

Reputation: 5735

Can't click on href link using Watir and Xpath

I am trying to click all the links within a table. The xpath is below.

(2..lines).each do |i|
  browser.element(:xpath => "//*[@id=\"StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0\"]/tr[{i}]/td[3]/a").click
end

However, I get

NoMethodError: undefined method `click' for #<Watir::HTMLElementCollection:0x00007fcfa69d3c08>

I assume my xpath is wrong, or I'm using watir incorrectly.

PRY:

[61] pry(main)> elements = @browser.elements(:xpath => "//*[@id=\"StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0\"]/tr[2]/td[3]/a")
=> #<Watir::HTMLElementCollection:0x00007fcfa7424130
 @query_scope=#<Watir::Browser:0x..f0106c8d0f94f382 url="https://personal.domain.com/us/Statements" title="Statements">,
 @selector={:xpath=>"//*[@id=\"StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0\"]/tr[2]/td[3]/a"},
 @selector_builder=
  #<Watir::Locators::Element::SelectorBuilder:0x00007fcfa6b8fb78
   @built={:xpath=>"//*[@id=\"StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0\"]/tr[2]/td[3]/a"},
   @custom_attributes=[],
   @query_scope=#<Watir::Browser:0x..f0106c8d0f94f382 url="https://personal.domain.com/us/Statements" title="Statements">,
   @selector={:xpath=>"//*[@id=\"StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0\"]/tr[2]/td[3]/a"},
   @valid_attributes=
    [:title,
     :lang,
     :dir,
     :dataset,
     :accesskey,
     :accessKey,
     :innertext,
     :innerText,
     :onabort,
     :onblur,
     :oncancel,
     :oncanplay,
     :oncanplaythrough,
     :onchange,
     :onclick,
     :onclose,
     :oncuechange,
     :ondblclick,
     :ondrag,
     :ondragend,
     :ondragenter,
     :ondragexit,
     :ondragleave,
     :ondragover,
     :ondragstart,
     :ondrop,
     :ondurationchange,
     :onemptied,

I also tried:

[68] pry(main)> elements = @browser.elements(:xpath => "//*[@id=\"StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0\"]/tr[2]/node()").links
/Users/aa/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1/gems/pry-0.12.2/lib/pry/exceptions.rb:28: warning: $SAFE will become a normal global variable in Ruby 3.0
NoMethodError: undefined method `links' for #<Watir::HTMLElementCollection:0x00007fcfa744e610>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 125

Answers (2)

Rajagopalan
Rajagopalan

Reputation: 6064

You are calling click on collections elements, collection doesn't have click method. You have to iterate the collection and then have to click one after another.

Write this code

browser.table(id: "StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0").rows.each do |row|
  row.cell(index: 2).link.click
end

It will click the link which is on the third column of the table. WATIR automatically calculates the total number of rows in the table, you don't have to specify the count explicitly like you have done.

Upvotes: 1

titusfortner
titusfortner

Reputation: 4194

You shouldn't get an HTMLElementCollection error if you are using browser.element.

Watir is designed to reduce reliance on XPath in general. It can get complicated if the clicks reload the page; especially if the reload might have a different structure. Regardless, this *should work:

table = browser.table(id: "StmtSummaryForm:stmtDataTabletbody0")
table.links.each(&:click)

Upvotes: 1

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