how to iterate over a collection of items in selenium webdriver

Question

I have a collection of media item on a web page and all media items have the same class. The elements do not have IDs. I do not want use XPath selectors. When I use class name, it will pick only the first item, but I want click on the second item.

Currently I have:

WebElement ele = wd.findElement(By.className("vfmThumbnail"));
ele.click();

Answer 1

Try to use driver.findElements instead. It returns a list of all WebElements. All means also the not visible elements.

Here some code to iterate thru the list and only do something with the displayed items.

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.className("vfmThumbnail"));
java.util.Iterator<WebElement> i = elements.iterator();
while(i.hasNext()) {
    WebElement element = i.next();
    if (element.isDisplayed()) {
      // Do something with the element
    }
} 

Answer 2

If you want all elements that match your selector, use findElements. This will return a list which you can iterate through.

List rows = wd.findElements(By.className("vfmThumbnail"));