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how do i use list for selenium web driver in java

I need to select id which are continuously changing, and one id is in one row.

need to select id from each

Edit : 

 <tr id="tr-132885-id" class="bgwhite" onmouseout="hilightOnMouseOver('tr-132885-id','out')" onmouseover="hilightOnMouseOver('tr-132885-id','in')"> 
      <td class="companynm-td" valign="top"> <div id="expand-132885-div" class="left" style="vertical-align:top;"> 
         <a onclick="expandCompanyDetail('185159','132885','show','current','1');return false;" href="#">
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    paste yours html code we try to answer
    – sameer joshi
    Dec 21, 2015 at 9:21
  • This question doesn't clearly reflect what you are trying to ask. Please add more details
    – demouser123
    Dec 21, 2015 at 10:19
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    It can be done easily by xpath (by position). But we need to see your HTML and also if you have any tried any code so far??
    – TestingWithArif
    Dec 21, 2015 at 12:48
  • I guess id is dynamic which gets changed everytime,you need to get the pattern of the id, and iterate over it
    – saikrishna
    Dec 22, 2015 at 7:13
  • yes ID is dynamic which are changing for each row
    – PRasd
    Dec 23, 2015 at 6:21

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Below is a way to list URLs, you can change the By.tagName to your required selector like By.id

WebDriver driver = FirefoxDriver();   
driver.get("www.google.com");
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));

Hope this will help you out.

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Ask your developers to add a name (which does not need to be unique) to relevant elements. find_elements (Java may have different spelling) returns a LIST of elements.

If you cannot have name, you can find by CSS class. Xpath is locator of last hope, too brittle and too slow.

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  • Yes! If locating an element is that difficult, its better to ask the developers to put unique, static and less fragile attributes to locate the element.
    – Faiz
    Dec 23, 2015 at 8:37
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If you want to store each and every ID from all of the rows or columns then look at the below code :

Step1: grab the table, Step2: grab the rows, Step3: grab the columns.

WebElement table=driver.findElement(By.id("someID"));
//you can choose id,xpath or any other unique locator.
List<WebElement> rowID=table.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
for(WebElement row:rowID){
    List<WebElement> colID=row.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
}

now colID and rowID contains ID's of columns and rows respectively.

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