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    <p>Dear Selenium Webdriver Specialists,</p> <p>I am new to this framework and needed a bit of advice on how to locate / find all the search results from a sales property listing website. Below is a working code which has successfully found all the properties using Selenium Webdriver but I don't know how to use findElements(by...) to pick up every results returned by this website:</p> <pre><code> WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("http://www.domain.com.au/?mode=buy"); // Enter the query string "3000" WebElement query = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ctl00_SearchMoreCriteria_Radar_searchToBuy']")); query.sendKeys("3000"); WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ctl00_SearchMoreCriteria_Radar_Search']")); searchButton.click(); // Sleep until the div we want is visible or 5 seconds is over long end = System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000; </code></pre> <p>Could anyone offer some advice on this query? I also like to include a pausing mechanism before locating / finding all the returned results?</p> <p>Many thanks,</p> <p>Jack </p> <hr> <p>Thank you Santoshsarma very much for your response but I am struggling to apply your suggestion onto the following returned web query page output snippet:</p> <p></p> <pre><code> &lt;h3&gt; &lt;a id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_hypAddress" href="/Property/For-Sale/Penthouse/VIC/Melbourne/?adid=2009775619"&gt;602/73 Flinders Lane, Melbourne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;dl class="cN-featDetails"&gt; &lt;dt class="proptype"&gt;Property type&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_ddPropertyType" class="propertytype type-house" title="Property type: House"&gt;House&lt;/dd&gt; &lt;dt class="bedrooms"&gt;Bedrooms&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_ddBedrooms" class="bedrooms" title="Bedrooms"&gt;3&lt;/dd&gt; &lt;dt class="bathrooms"&gt;Bathrooms&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_ddBathrooms" class="bathrooms" title="Bathrooms"&gt;4&lt;/dd&gt; &lt;dt class="carspaces"&gt;Car spaces&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_ddCarSpaces" class="carspaces" title="Car spaces"&gt;2&lt;/dd&gt; &lt;/dl&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="main-wrap"&gt; &lt;ul class="photo cfix"&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_hypMainThumb" tabindex="-1" class="contain" href="/Property/For-Sale/Penthouse/VIC/Melbourne/?adid=2009775619"&gt;&lt;img id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_imgMainThumb" title="602/73 Flinders Lane, Melbourne" src="http://images.domain.com.au/img/2012625/18127/2009775619_1_PM.JPG?mod=120925-150000" alt="Main photo of 602/73 Flinders Lane, Melbourne - More Details" style="border-width:0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="last"&gt; &lt;a id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_hypSecondThumb" tabindex="-1" class="contain" href="/Property/For-Sale/Penthouse/VIC/Melbourne/?adid=2009775619"&gt;&lt;img id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_imgSecondThumb" title="602/73 Flinders Lane, Melbourne" src="http://images.domain.com.au/img/2012625/18127/2009775619_2_PM.JPG?mod=120913-125823" alt="Photo of 602/73 Flinders Lane, Melbourne - More Details" style="border-width:0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>List AllSearchResults=driver.findElements(By.id("ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_SrchResLst_rptResult_ctl01_EliteListingTemplate_hypAddress"));</p> </blockquote> <p>There is an index in ctl01 that needs to cycle through to get all search results which would be slow according other similar threats. Is there a better approach to use findElement() on a WebElement to search just its children but I am at a lost on where to locate the root. Are you able to confirm whether this approach would work &amp; perhaps pin point where the root of the list of results from the following URL query result page: <a href="http://www.domain.com.au/Search/buy/Property/Types/Apartment-Unit-Flat/Duplex/House/New-Apartments-Off-the-Plan/New-Home-Designs/New-House-Land/Penthouse/Semi-Detached/Studio/Terrace/Townhouse/Villa/State/VIC/Area/Inner-City/Region/Melbourne-Region/Suburb/Melbourne/?bedrooms=1&amp;bathrooms=1&amp;carspaces=1&amp;from=450000&amp;searchterm=3000&amp;pois=PriSchl|1|2|2000" rel="nofollow">http://www.domain.com.au/Search/buy/Property/Types/Apartment-Unit-Flat/Duplex/House/New-Apartments-Off-the-Plan/New-Home-Designs/New-House-Land/Penthouse/Semi-Detached/Studio/Terrace/Townhouse/Villa/State/VIC/Area/Inner-City/Region/Melbourne-Region/Suburb/Melbourne/?bedrooms=1&amp;bathrooms=1&amp;carspaces=1&amp;from=450000&amp;searchterm=3000&amp;pois=PriSchl|1|2|2000</a></p> <p>Your patience for my lack of experience in this area would be very much appreciated.</p>
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