Loop through a list of Elements by Partial Link Text Selenium

Question

I'm stuck and need help on investigation and improvement.

I am trying to gather all the <a> tags with Annual Report as their partial text then loop through them since they're originally located inside a table(2nd column per row).

Below is the process that I'm planning to execute:

After clicking an <a> tag, a new window would pop up
find and get specific values in the new window
close the window
move to the next element (<a> tag) and repeat

The code below is my current progress, but it is completely not working. I am still unable to click the very first element.

var reportLinks = driver.findElements(By.partialLinkText('Annual Report'));

for(var i = 0; i < reportLinks.length; i++){
    reportLinks[i].click();
}

Not completely sure why it's not working. Can you add the relevant html code. Also, try using an xpath. Maybe this: `"//a[contains(text(),'Annual Report')]"` — Jayesh Doolani, Apr 28 '17 at 14:57
Is the method `async`? Mhmm maybe it skips the click. Here is the link to the site: http://edge.pse.com.ph/financialReports/form.do — JPaulPunzalan, Apr 28 '17 at 15:01
@JayeshDoolani I tried the `xpath` code but still no luck on accessing the `` tags and successfully launching the pop up window — JPaulPunzalan, Apr 28 '17 at 15:03
is it inside an iframe? is it visible on screen? Can you add webdriver wait until element is visible & then fetch the elements — Jayesh Doolani, Apr 28 '17 at 15:12
`driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5000);` is this fine? I have that in my code even before though mhmmm strange — JPaulPunzalan, Apr 28 '17 at 15:23
to add, I was able to access other elements such as textboxes and button for filtering of the table where the `` tags are located — JPaulPunzalan, Apr 28 '17 at 15:26
@JeffC The popup result of clicking the `` tag does not open when I run the code. `No errors` were seen in my js command prompt, meaning the code ran smoothly or it passed through my loop code — JPaulPunzalan, Apr 28 '17 at 15:37
I'm able to click on the `` links in Java. Still wondering why yours isn't working — Jayesh Doolani, Apr 28 '17 at 15:50
Can you try this: `JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;` and then inside for loop do: `js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", reportLinks[i]);` — Jayesh Doolani, Apr 28 '17 at 15:56
I got an `unexpected identifier` on the `JavascriptExecutor` code — JPaulPunzalan, Apr 28 '17 at 16:02

Jasmine James · Answer 1 · 2017-04-28T16:11:00.333

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This is how I would accomplish this

//This will get you how many elements are present
var reportLinks = driver.findElements(By.xpath('//tr/td/a[contains(text(),'Annual Report')]'));

//This will click on each element
for(var i = 0; i < reportLinks.length; i++){
driver.findElement(By.xpath('//tr[' + i + ']/td/a[contains(text(),'Annual Report')]')).click();
}

The reason for this is the Annual Report element is not the parent container the element is.

edited Apr 28 '17 at 16:11

answered Apr 28 '17 at 16:06

Jasmine James

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the `i` in the xpath should be replaced by the value of variable `i` – Jayesh Doolani Apr 28 '17 at 16:09
Thanks for that @JayeshDoolani – Jasmine James Apr 28 '17 at 16:11
strange.. pop up still does not open. would it be due to my code above it, i have to filter the table first before the `` tag clicking: `driver.get('http://edge.pse.com.ph/financialReports/form.do'); driver.wait(until.titleIs('Financial Reports'), 1000) driver.findElement(By.name('tmplNm')).sendKeys('Annual Report'); driver.executeScript("document.getElementsByName('fromDate')[0].setAttribute('value', '4-23-2012')"); driver.sleep(3000); driver.findElement(By.id('btnSearch')).click();` – JPaulPunzalan Apr 28 '17 at 16:15
Try This ```driver.findElement(By.xpath('//tr[' + i + ']/td[2]/a[contains(text(),'A‌nnual Report')]')).click();``` @JPaulPunzalan – Jasmine James Apr 28 '17 at 16:27
@JasmineJames No changes on the `var reportLink` code? Still no popups on my end though strange – JPaulPunzalan Apr 28 '17 at 16:33
No changes there because we want to get all elements for iteration purposes. I have this working with Java in FireFox. This is very strange. What browser are you using? – Jasmine James Apr 28 '17 at 16:36
I'm using `node.js` and `Google Chrome` as browser – JPaulPunzalan Apr 28 '17 at 16:38
@JasminJames @JayeshDoolani could it be due to the `return false;` inside the element? `Annual Report` Mhmmm – JPaulPunzalan Apr 29 '17 at 03:31
I was able to make it work yesterday :) @JayeshDoolani – JPaulPunzalan May 01 '17 at 02:20

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

I was able to make it work using the code below:

for (var i = 1; i < 51; i++) { 

    var element = driver.findElement(By.xpath('//*[@id="dataList"]/table/tbody/tr[' + i + ']/td[1]/a'));
    driver.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

}

I just copied the xpath on the page through Google Chrome's Inspect Element feature and passed an argument via executeScript.

You could find out how via this link: Is there a way to get the xpath in google chrome?

Thank you very much!

Loop through a list of Elements by Partial Link Text Selenium

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