Selenium FindElements 方法 Java

Question

In my project I use findElement(By.linkText("")).click(); but in the web page I'm using, many links have the same name(btw I can use By.linktext only) so i want to know it its possible to navigate among the links which have the same name

Also when i use List<WebElement> h=driver.findElements(By.linkText("Years")); and print it:

[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on LINUX (f5681889-d73a-4a0f-88e9-2e189491049b)] -> link text: Years],[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on LINUX (f5681889-d73a-4a0f-88e9-2e189491049b)] -> link text: Years],[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on LINUX (f5681889-d73a-4a0f-88e9-2e189491049b)] -> link text: Years],

update: In the page im working on, every 2nd link text with the same name is where i would like to go to, also there isnt any difference in those links except their description eg: link 1: Years ABC(description)

link 2: Years XYZ(description) can i use the description as a condition in any way??

Answer 1

If you observe the output:

[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on LINUX (f5681889-d73a-4a0f-88e9-2e189491049b)] -> link text: Years],[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on LINUX (f5681889-d73a-4a0f-88e9-2e189491049b)] -> link text: Years],[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on LINUX (f5681889-d73a-4a0f-88e9-2e189491049b)] -> link text: Years],...]

All the elements are having the linkText as Years . So apperantly you can should be able to use:

List<WebElement> h=driver.findElements(By.linkText("Years"));

But, invoking click() on certain elements at times changes the DOM Tree and the saved elements within the list may turn into stale elements .

In these cases, printing the link names may fail as well as assertions .

Hence as per the best practices, you may like to invoke click() on the specific linkTexts as the necessity arises inducing WebDriverWait . As an example:

• cssSelector :

   new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("element_css"))).click();

• xpath :

   new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("element_xpath"))).click();

Answer 2

so i couldn't find the solution to my original question, but as for the updated question i just iterated to the second element of the list i got using: List h=driver.findElements(By.linkText("Years")); h.get(1).click(); although it would be much efficient if i could get the destination URL of all the links generated by the search engine