Clicking on a hypertext link using XPath

Question

Apologies if this is a dumb question - I\'m new to Selenium.

I have a web page I\'m testing that has a few hypertext links in a table. The HTML looks like this:

Answer 1

List links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));

then iterate through links and click on each one of them using for loop

Answer 2

Notice that the expression in question

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='content']/div/form/div/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[1]")).click()

selects a td element, in case of which no link or event is defined. While clicking it in browser should open a link, it will happen only because you're effectively clicking what's inside the tag as well as the td itself. The code above only clicks the td, ignoring its content.

You have to go one step deeper, to the a element within your currently selected td. Like this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='content']/div/form/div/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[1]/a")).click()

Answer 3

You can gather all the links together by using findElements and then iterate through the array.

Example - List<WebElement> inputs = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input"));

and in your case

List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.linkText("Show"));

and then iterate through links and click on each one of them