List<WebElement>

Richard Hunter

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May 14, 2009, 10:39:22 AM5/14/09

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Hi,

I am very new to webdriver (started yesterday) so I apologise for the
basic question.

I am trying to select a value from a drop down list on a webpage, and
having a search on this group and a the interwe I have found the
following code (or similar) in several places:

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.tagName("select"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName
("option"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
if ("want this".equals(option.getValue())) {
option.setSelected();
break;
}
}

However before I try and change it to use the drop down I have in mind
I always get the error 'List cannot be resolved'.

Is there another way of doing this, or have I missed the obvious
(which would bring the tally up for the day to be about 15)

Thanks in advance

Richard

Simon Stewart

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May 14, 2009, 11:49:09 AM5/14/09

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Hi Richard,

Welcome to the group!

The "List" referred to is Java's "java.util.List" class: you'll need
that in the import statements at the top of your java code. We also
use generics, so you'll need to be using Java 5 or above for this to
compile.

You may find that the "Select" class in the webdriver-support.jar is
useful to you. From your example, it could be used like this:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.tagName("select"));
Select select = new Select(element);
select.selectByVisibleText("want this");

The fully qualified name you'll need in the import statement is
"org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select".

Regards,

Simon

Richard Hunter

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May 14, 2009, 11:56:16 AM5/14/09

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ah that was silly thanks for pointing out the missing include! I will
try your other suggestion as well that looks handy

dheeraj gupta

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Apr 17, 2013, 12:10:13 PM4/17/13

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Hi Simon,

I used the below code

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.tagName("select"));
Select select = new Select(element);
select.selectByVisibleText("want this");

But in my case tag name is under the span tag.I am getting an error of " Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "span""

can you please dig out the problem and provide the firm solution

krishna Murthy

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Jul 1, 2013, 1:50:46 AM7/1/13

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hi....
In my project there is a list of elements and i want to mouseover on an element and here is the HTML code can someone help me how to handle this to mouse over on an element

<li class="user-itm active" rowid="dff6d0a9-8ce1-4439-b42b-905bfae79ce1">

chirag verma

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Nov 27, 2013, 6:43:32 AM11/27/13

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Hi,

Will u kindly tel me the meaning LIst<WebElement> in below line
List<WebElement> values = dropdown.findElements(By.tagName("option"));

Regards
Chirag

Krishnan Mahadevan

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Nov 28, 2013, 1:59:05 AM11/28/13

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What exactly are you trying to look for here as an explanation ?

findElements() is designed to return back a List of WebElement which is what is being assigned to the variable "values" whose type is List<WebElement>

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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Pawan Garia

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Nov 28, 2013, 6:34:55 AM11/28/13

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This means a list of type WebElement and you can iterate over this List and perform any action on particular WebElement..

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:13 PM, chirag verma <chiragv...@gmail.com> wrote:

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susanth.nair

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Nov 28, 2013, 10:22:34 AM11/28/13

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can you plese share the HTML tags . (not just the tags where u want to mouse over )

shruthi sadanala

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Jan 21, 2016, 11:43:12 AM1/21/16

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Hi,

Even am new to webdriver and java. Trying to execute below code to find the links in a particular page, and unable to proceed due to the error : "The type list is not generic; it cannot be parameterized with aurguments<webElement>"

Please provide a resolution

Thanks in advance

public static void main(String[] args) {

FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("bhttp://www.flipkart.com/");

List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));

for(int i = 0;i<links.size();i++){

System.out.println(links.get(i).getText());

}

System.out.println("Total number of links = " + links.size());

Anup

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Jan 21, 2016, 10:27:50 PM1/21/16

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You need to import java.util.List and not .java.awt.List. It will solve your concern.