how to perform action on WebElement list in Selenium

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Not able to iterate through WebElement List

Hi

I am doing some action on https://www.makemytrip.com/ under Departure. When click on Departure, it will show calendar of two months.

I am able to get two webElements with same xpath as mentioned below, now I want to go one by one, and getText() to match with user month name.

List<WebElement> month_list= driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='DayPicker-Month']"));

ListIterator<WebElement> listIter= month_list.listIterator();

while(listIter.hasNext()) {

WebElement elem= listIter.next();

System.out.println(elem.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='DayPicker-Caption']/div")).getText());

}

But every time, it is reporting same text :

July 2019
July 2019

However, I am expecting it should report :

July 2019 
August 2019

Please guide me how can I perform anything on each element one by one.

Please refer the attached image. – Suman Jul 12 '19 at 12:01 — Suman, Jul 12 '19 at 12:01

Saurabh Gaur · Answer 1 · 2019-07-12T12:49:22.413

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You should try using . instead of / in you second xpath as below :-

System.out.println(elem.findElement(By.xpath("./div[@class='DayPicker-Caption']/div")).getText());

Absolute vs relative XPaths (/ vs .)

/ introduces an absolute location path, starting at the root of the document.
. introduces a relative location path, starting at the context node.

edited Jul 12 '19 at 12:49

answered Jul 12 '19 at 12:42

Saurabh Gaur

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '19 at 10:41

you can make use of foreach loop. Try the below code

for(WebElement monthName: month_list)
    System.out.println(monthName.getText())

P.S. I doubt your Xpath ,the xpath which you wrote is the entire month calendar(that is the month name , the dates , the prices on each dates so its the entire div that you have picked)

Kindly try

List<WebElement> month_list= driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='DayPicker-Caption']"));

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 17 '19 at 05:46

You can Try using,

List<WebElement> monthname= driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='DayPicker-Caption']"));

After Storing in List of Webelements you can use different kind of for Loops for getting the text.But the best preference is forEach Loop and for Iterative Loop.

forEach Loop:

for(WebElement months: monthname)
{
    System.out.println(months.getText())
}

General forLoop

int length= monthname.size();

for (int i = 0; i<length; i++) 
{
    String name = monthname.get(i);
    System.out.println(name);

}

PS: But The Best Preference is to go with forEachLoop Rather than General For Loop.

how to perform action on WebElement list in Selenium

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