How to find multiple elements on a page in selenium?

Question

I have multiple input HTML tags on same page having same id and name or class,

Now How should I find 2nd or 3rd.. etc input. I can work with arrays so Do we have some function which will return all the textBox(input tag) from that page.

Answer 1

First you create a list with FindElements, then you can iterate through that list. For example:

var allTextBoxes = driver.FindElements(By.TagName("input"));

foreach(var textBox in allTextBoxes)
{
    textBox.DoSomething();
}

You can use a for-loop as well:

for(int i = 0; i < allTextBoxes.Count; i++)
{
   allTextBoxes[i].DoSomething();
}     

Or if you want a specific Element, in example the 3rd:

allTextBoxes[2].DoSomething();

Answer 2

Expanding on Anaxi's answer,

If you are using the PageObject framework you can do it like this and set the FindsBy attribute on a property:

[FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "YourId")]
public IList<IWebElement> ListOfWebElements { get; set; }

Answer 3

i dont know about selenium... but to select element of html page you can use HtmlAgilityPack..

HtmlWeb hw = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument doc = hw.Load(@"http://example.com");
HtmlNode node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class='your_class_name']");

it will return a list of node that contains your_class_name.. then find and use the one you want.

to select all the input tags from that page you can use

foreach (var input in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//input"))
{
    //your logic here 
}

hope it helps..

Answer 4

In C# I use FindElements then ElementAt():

var foo= Driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//div[@class='your_class_name']"));
var foo2= foo.ElementAt(1);

If it's 10 elements with the same ID (which is HORRIBLE) and I'd like to grab the 8th element, I just use ElementAt(8); (or index 7 or however you're set up).

It's a tough call. I'd much rather have them fix the code but in some cases that's just not going to happen... at least not in the near future.

Hope this helps.