How to click the link located in a list using Selenium WebDriver in Java

Question

I want to click the "Next" link

Hi! I've been trying to scrape data for some project I have. I'm still new at using Selenium but I've been able to do the basics. What I want to do now is for the program to click the "Next" link above to move to the next page to scrape more data. Please help.

Answer 1

The desired element is a Angular element so you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solution:

• cssSelector :

   new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("li.ng-scope[translate='next']"))).click(); 

• xpath :

   new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//li[contains(@class,'ng-scope') and @translate='next'][contains(.,'Next')]"))).click();