Selenium scripts
I want to use selenium scripts to click on a bunch of links on my web page one by one, each click results in a page refresh. However selenium does not support a css pseudo-class like: visited, so I cannot distinguish the ones that are already clicked from those that I want to click next. Is there a way to solve my problem?
here's my code: http://pastebin.com/z0uRTHHp
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New answer to solve the problem using Selenium IDE:
Note. You need to install the flow control plugin from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/85794/ (or use the user-extension from http://51elliot.blogspot.com/2008/02/selenium- ide-goto.html )
<tr>
<td>storeXpathCount</td>
<td>//body/descendant::a</td>
<td>linkCount</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>store</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>link</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label</td>
<td>checkLink</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>echo</td>
<td>checking link ${link} of ${linkCount}</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>//body/descendant::a[${link}]</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- ADD YOUR CHECKS HERE -->
<tr>
<td>goBackAndWait</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>while</td>
<td>storedVars['link'] <= storedVars['linkCount']</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>storeEval</td>
<td>storedVars['link'] = ${link} + 1;</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gotolabel</td>
<td>checkLink</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>endWhile</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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You can use a command getXPathCount
to return the number of links on a page and then loop them through XPath. Below is a simple example using Java with Selenium RC:
int linkCount = selenium.getXpathCount("/descendant::a").intValue();
for (int i = 0; i < linkCount; i++) {
selenium.click("/descendant::a[" + i + "]");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("60000");
//ADD YOUR CHECKS HERE
selenium.goBack();
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("60000");
}
If you are using Selenium 2 or WebDriver this should work:
List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/descendant::a"));
int lSize = links.size();
for (int l = 0; l < lSize; l++) {
links = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/descendant::a"));
WebElement link = links.get(l);
link.click();
//ADD YOUR CHECKS HERE
driver.navigate().back();
}
Hope it helps.
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Click All links on the page:
@Test
public void test () throws InterruptedException {
try {
List<WebElement> no = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
int nooflinks = no.size();
System.out.println(nooflinks);
for (WebElement pagelink : no) {
no.click();
String linktext = pagelink.getText();
driver.navigate.refresh();
Thread.sleep(1000);
System.out.println(linktext);
}
}
catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("error "+e);
}
}
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first you need to get all links in your webpage:
List<WebElement> links= driver.findElements(By.Tag('a'));
The second thing you need to iterate over one by one with a click on a specific link, and as you said after the click, your page will refresh, so in this case, you need to wait until your next link is fully accessible:
for(WebElement link: links)
{
//wait for element to clickable
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(link);
link.click();
}
and if you want to distinguish which link has already been clicked, maybe your link text color will fade or change after click.
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