Looping through an List to select an Element in Selenium
- by ChrisMcLellan
I'm attempting to write a Page Class for Links within the Header of the website I'm testing. I have the following link structure below
<ul>
<li><a href="/" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="/AboutUs" title="About Us">About Us</a> </li>
<li><a href="/Account" title="Account">Account</a></li>
<li><a href="/Account/Orders" title="Orders">Orders</a></li>
<li><a href="/AdministrationPortal" title="Administration Portal">Administration Portal</a></li>
</ul>
What I want to do is store these into a List, then when a user select one of the links, it will take then to the page they should go to.
I have started with the following code below
List<IWebElement> headerElements = new List<IWebElement>();
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Home")));
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("About Us")));
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Account")));
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Orders")));
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Administration Portal")));
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Log in / Register")));
headerElements.Add(WebDriver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Log off")));
I was thinking for using a for loop to do this, would this be the best way. I'm trying to avoid writting methods like the one below for each link
public void SelectCreateNewReferralLink()
{
var selectAboutUsLink = ( new WebDriverWait(WebDriver, new TimeSpan(50))).Until
(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.CssSelector("#main > a:nth-of-type(1)")));
selectCreateNewReferralLink.Click();
}
I'm using C#, with WebDriver attempting to write this
Any Help would be great
Thanks
Chris
