SELENIUM - How to count IWebElement in IList<IWebElement> and get the position in the list

Question

I have a problem and I don't know how to solve that...

I have 5 exactly the same elements on the page (same div, same class, no id, same inner text). So I can build the XPath - where Selenium returns to me - the IList with IWebElements.

My Goal is to iterate thru this list and "somehow" get the IWebElement that I have clicked on...

I know, that I can use XPath like this: //div[2] for the second one, but this is the thing - How I can get information that I have clicked to the second WebElement from the list? Can I somehow compare the elements? (I have tried to compare GetHash() and compare the webelements - but both did not work)

I would like to have something like this:

- User clicks to the element
- My code determines, that there are many of them
- My code get the information that user clicked to the n-th element from the list
- My code will generate xpath -> //div[x] where x is the order of the element in the list

Any advice?

I have tried this but it does not work:

private int GetTheOrderOfTheElement(string xpath, IWebElement objID)
        {
            IList<IWebElement> el = driver.FindElements(By.XPath(xpath));
            int c = 0;
            foreach(IWebElement e in el)
            {
                if (e == objID) return c;
                c++;
            }


            return -1;
        }

Answer 1

SOLUTION HAS BEEN FOUND:

I actually CAN use the code above, but I need to check HasCode - not the object itself:

private int GetTheOrderOfTheElement(string xpath, IWebElement objID)
        {
            IList<IWebElement> el = driver.FindElements(By.XPath(xpath));
            int c = 0;
            foreach (IWebElement e in el)
            {
                if (e.GetHashCode() == objID.GetHashCode()) return c;
                c++;
            }


            return -1;
        }

Answer 2

How I can get information that I have clicked to the second WebElement from the list? Can I somehow compare the elements?

You can cross check with the text which item is clicked. Use get text from xpath. You can also compare the elements before click. You can try this.

IList<IWebElement> all = driver.FindElements(By.XPath(xpath));
int i = 0;
foreach (IWebElement element in all)
{
    if (element.Text == "#your text to be compared") 
        element.click();
    i++;    
}