Unable to Select the auto suggestions in google search text box

[nikhil rao]

1. I'm opening the google.com
2. I'm providing the search Selenium
3. Now I'm trying to print all the suggestions but text itself is not being entered in Text box


see code below:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.get("https://www.google.co.in");
            driver.manage().window().maximize();
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='sb_ifc0']")).sendKeys("Selenium");
            String xpath="//div/ul[@class='sbsb_b']/li[2]";
            List<WebElement> L1=driver.findElements(By.xpath(xpath));
            int iSize=L1.size();
            //L1.get(0).click();
            for (int i=0;i<iSize;i++)
            {
                String Link_Text=L1.get(i).getText();
                System.out.println(Link_Text);

[darrell grainger]

The findElement call you are doing is finding a DIV element. You do not, normally, send text to a DIV element. You really want to find the INPUT element and send the string "Selenium" to that INPUT element. Once you send the text to the correct element then you want to find the list of suggestions. I like to use CSS selector because it is a little less verbose than the XPath locator. Additionally, I would use WebDriverWait to wait for the suggestion list to be populated. So, you are close with your code but I would have implemented it using:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); // create an instance of the browser

WebDriverWait wdw = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30); // create something which can wait for the suggestions

driver.manage().window().maximize(); // maximize the browser window

driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/"); // go to Google Search

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#lst-ib")).sendKeys("Selenium"); // send the string "Selenium" to the input

wdw.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.cssSelector(".sbsb_b .sbqs_c"))); // wait for the suggestions

List<WebElement> suggestions = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".sbsb_b .sbqs_c")); // find all the suggestions

for(WebElement suggestion : suggestions) { // iterate over all the suggestions

System.out.println(suggestion.getText()); // print the suggestions

}

driver.quit(); // close the browser

Notice that computers are stupid. You REALLY have to spell out everything for the computer:

1. Create an instance of the browser
2. Create something to wait for the suggestions
3. Maximize the browser window
4. Go to Google Search
5. Send the string "Selenium" to the input
6. Wait for the suggestions
7. Find all the suggestions
8. Iterate over all the suggestions
9. Print the suggestions
10. Close the browser

You can clean this up a little. I have the string ".sbsb_b .sbqs_c" used twice plus it is not clear what this is referring to. So I might change this to:

By googleSearchSuggestionCSSSelector = By.cssSelector(".sbsb_b .sbqs_c");

 

then I can use this variable in the code. If you did want to use XPath rather than a CSS selector you could use:

By googleSeaarchSuggestionXPathLocator = By.xpath("//*[contains(@class, 'sbsb_b')]//*[contains(@class,'sbqs_c')]");

This XPath locator is identical to the CSS selector.