Selenium ignores links?

[Campo]

Hey guys,
I've a (maybe) simple question.

I currently use selenium to remove some posts in a phpbb3 board (allowed by the board so far).
For this procedure, I login with selenium, open the search form and search all my posts.

In the next step, selenium opens for every post a new tab (one at a time). In the new tab, selenium searches for all edit-buttons, opens them (one at a time again)
in a new tab, edit the content of the post and submits the form (see the code below).

Now I've the problem, that the edit-buttons doesn't get clicked sometimes.

I'll try to post a little piece of code here.

private void openElementInNewTab(WebElement element) {
    element.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.RETURN);

    WebElement bodyElement = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body"));
    bodyElement.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL,Keys.TAB);

    driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
    windowHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
}

private void editPostsRoutine() {
    List<WebElement> editButtons = driver.findElements(By.linkText("Edit Post"));

    for(WebElement editButton : editButtons) {
        openPost(editButton);
        WebElement messageElement = driver.findElement(By.id("message"));

        if(!messageElement.getText().equals(postReplaceText) {
             messageElement.clear();
             messageElement.sendKeys(postReplaceText);
             WebElement submitButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".button1.default-submit-action"));
             submitButton.click();
        }
        closeTab();
    }
}

If you need other snippets - just tell me!
I also tried to use:

driver.wait(...).until(EC.presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy(...))

Info: This happens only to some links (e.g. edit buttons), I don't know, why it works sometimes, and sometimes not.

Would be nice, if someone could spend some time for a solution.
Regards

[Shubham Agarwal]

Hi Campo ,

Try adding explicit wait before clicking the edit buttons , because may be sometime it is taking time to load.