After selecting the second option from dropdown, the WebElement is still showing the record of first option

Question

There is a dropdown list where each selection has a different URL under the dropdown buttons. Suppose when I select first option then it shows 10 hyperlink and select the second option it shows 5 hyperlinks, etc.

Problem - When I select the second option, it is still showing 10 hyperlinks instead of 5 and shows

org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element not found in the cache - perhaps the page has changed since it was looked up

Select select = new Select(selectdropdown);
List<WebElement> options = select.getOptions();
int isize = options.size();

for (int i = 0; i < isize; i++)
{
    String value = select.getOptions().get(i).getText();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(100, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    WebElement WebElementer = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='content-inner']"));
    List<WebElement> elementList = new ArrayList<>();
    elementList = WebElementer.findElements(By.cssSelector("a[href]"));
    System.out.println("Total number of links found" + elementList.size());
    System.out.println("to check wheather link is working or not");
    for (WebElement element : elementList)
    {
        try
        {
            System.out.println("URL: " + element.getAttribute("href").trim() + " returned "
                + islinkBroken(new URL(element.getAttribute("href").trim())));
        }
        catch (Exception exp)
        {
            System.out.println("At " + element.getAttribute("innerHTML")
                + " Exception occured -&gt; " + exp.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Where you selecting the option? – Leon Barkan Jun 26 '16 at 07:37 — Leon Barkan, Jun 26 '16 at 07:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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where you selecting the element ?? (C# syntax example)

IList<IWebElement> accountsDDL = driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//select[@id='yourSelectId']/option"));

for (int i = 1; i < accountsDDL.Count; i++)
{
   new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Name("yourSelectId"))).SelectByText(accountsDDL[i].Text); // Selecting the element
}

In java

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '16 at 02:41

I spent a little time cleaning up your code and added a few things. See if this works. As Leon said, I think one of the issues was that you didn't have code that actually changed the selected option.

Select select = new Select(selectdropdown);
for (int i = 0; i < select.getOptions().size(); i++)
{
    select.selectByIndex(i); // you were missing this line?
    // String value = select.getFirstSelectedOption().getText(); // this variable is never used
    // driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(100, TimeUnit.SECONDS); // this doesn't do what you think it does
    // I think this next line should work. I combined the two locators into one.
    List<WebElement> elementList = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("#content-inner a[href]"));
    System.out.println("Total number of links found" + elementList.size());
    System.out.println("to check wheather link is working or not");
    for (WebElement element : elementList)
    {
        try
        {
            String href = element.getAttribute("href").trim();
            System.out.println("URL: " + href + " returned " + islinkBroken(new URL(href)));
        }
        catch (Exception exp)
        {
            System.out.println("At " + element.getAttribute("innerHTML") + " Exception occured -&gt; " + exp.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Suggestion: It might be useful to you to add the selected option text to your exception message.

After selecting the second option from dropdown, the WebElement is still showing the record of first option

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