How to fetch all links and click those links one by one using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I am using Selenium WebDriver with java.

I am fetching all links from webpage and trying to click each link one by one. I am getting below error:

Answer 1

If you're OK using WebDriver.get() instead of WebElement.click() to test the links, an alternate approach is to save the href value of each found WebElement in a separate list. This way you avoid the StaleElementReferenceException because you're not trying to reuse subsequent WebElements after navigating away with the first WebElement.click().

Basic example:

List hrefs = new ArrayList();
List anchors = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
for ( WebElement anchor : anchors ) {
    hrefs.add(anchor.getAttribute("href"));
}
for ( String href : hrefs ) {
    driver.get(href);           
}