How to extract the dynamic values of the id attributes of the table elements using Selenium and Java

Question

I have a table where each row will have a download link with a (partly) auto-generated id element. The reason for this is that the actual href-element will allways be \"#\",

Answer 1

Until you find the element first, you can't retrieve the attribute values of it.

Use findElements method to fetch all links using the following locator

table tr td[class='journalTable-journalPost'] a

Then iterate through each element using for-each to fetch id for each element.

Sample code:

List listOfLinks = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("table tr td[class='journalTable-journalPost'] a"));

for(WebElement link: listOfLinks) {
     System.out.println("id:" + link.getAttribute("id"));
}