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How to find element by index in selenium webdriver for java

I am trying to automate the Google Images page:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pluralsight&biw=1416&bih=685&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qGd6VN6bEZTooAT7q4C4BQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw

All images are of the same class, but no ID, and the results are constantly changing. So I would like to be able to click on images by their index.

I know how to do this in C # ... but I cannot figure out how to point in the index in Java. When I try to select an index outside of 0, I get an IndexOutOfBounds error as well, but I can't figure out why

WebElement image = chromeDriver.findElement(By.className("rg_di"));
WebElement imageLink = image.findElements(By.tagName("a")).get(1);
imageLink.click();

Here is all the code im using ... any help would be appreciated:

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/user/chromedriver");
    WebDriver chromeDriver = new ChromeDriver();
    chromeDriver.get("http://www.google.com");

    WebElement searchBox = chromeDriver.findElement(By.id("gbqfq"));
    searchBox.sendKeys("pluralsight");
    searchBox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

    chromeDriver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    WebElement imagesLink = chromeDriver.findElement(By.linkText("Images"));
    imagesLink.click();

    WebElement image = chromeDriver.findElement(By.className("rg_di"));
    WebElement imageLink = image.findElements(By.tagName("a")).get(1);
    imageLink.click();

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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In your code:

WebElement image = chromeDriver.findElement(By.className("rg_di"));

will return the first element found on the page with the class "rg_di".

This element contains only one tag <a href=... /a>

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You are getting an IndexOutOfBounds exception because you are asking for the second (zero indexing). If you change your latest WebElement to:



WebElement imageLink = image.findElements(By.tagName("a")).get(0);

The code should work for you with this small change.

This is my swift version (note the lack of element storage, which I only need to do with WebElements):

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // I don't have Chrome installed >.<
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    driver.get("http://www.google.com");

    WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfq"));
    searchBox.sendKeys("pluralsight");
    searchBox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Images")).click();

    WebElement image = driver.findElement(By.className("rg_di"));
    image.findElements(By.tagName("a")).get(0).click();

    // super-shortened version:
    // driver.findElement(By.className("rg_di")).findElements(By.tagName("a")).get(0).click();
}
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I would do:



List<WebElement> we  = chromeDriver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".your-class a"));

we.get(1) //should get first element in array
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This code worked really well when we have similar object properties for the same web buttons and then using

List<WebElement> we = webdriver.findElements(By.cssSelector(""));

and then getting

 we.get(1).click();

Thank you so much for posting this answer.

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