selenium scripts

Question

I want to use selenium scripts to click on a bunch of links on my webpage one by one, each click results in a page refresh. However selenium doesn't support css pseudo class like :visited, so I can't distinguish the ones that are already clicked from the ones that I want to click on next. Is there a way to solve my problem?

here's my code: http://pastebin.com/z0uRTHHp

Answer 1

You could use the getXPathCount command to return the number of links on the page, and then loop through them using XPath. A simple example using Java with Selenium RC follows:

int linkCount = selenium.getXpathCount("/descendant::a").intValue();
for (int i = 0; i < linkCount; i++) {
    selenium.click("/descendant::a[" + i + "]");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("60000");
    //ADD YOUR CHECKS HERE
    selenium.goBack();
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("60000");
}

If you're using Selenium 2 or WebDriver, the following should work:

List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/descendant::a"));
int lSize = links.size();

for (int l = 0; l < lSize; l++) {
    links = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/descendant::a"));
    WebElement link = links.get(l);
    link.click();
    //ADD YOUR CHECKS HERE
    driver.navigate().back();
}

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

New answer for solving using Selenium IDE:

Note: You'll need to install the Flow Control plugin from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/85794/ (or use the user-extension from http://51elliot.blogspot.com/2008/02/selenium-ide-goto.html)

<tr>
  <td>storeXpathCount</td>
  <td>//body/descendant::a</td>
  <td>linkCount</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>store</td>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>link</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>label</td>
  <td>checkLink</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>echo</td>
  <td>checking link ${link} of ${linkCount}</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>clickAndWait</td>
  <td>//body/descendant::a[${link}]</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<!-- ADD YOUR CHECKS HERE -->
<tr>
  <td>goBackAndWait</td>
  <td></td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>while</td>
  <td>storedVars['link'] &lt;= storedVars['linkCount']</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>storeEval</td>
  <td>storedVars['link'] = ${link} + 1;</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>gotolabel</td>
  <td>checkLink</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>endWhile</td>
  <td></td>
  <td></td>
</tr>