Question

I am using a watin dll to browse through a webpage, click on a link in li tag, go to the next page, fetch some data, go back to previous page and click the link in the next li tag.

I am able to do this with one link in li tag. I want to get all the li tag underul <classname> click on each link and perform the above procedure. How can I get all the li and loop through each page?

HTML code of the page is like this:

<ul id="ul_classname" class="search-result-set">
    <li class="">
        <div class="Div_Classname">
            <h3 class="standard_font">
                <a class="a class_name" href="link to be clicked">text to be displayed</a>
            </h3>
            <p class="word-wrap"></p>
        </div>
    </li>
    <li class="">
        <div class="Div_Classname">
            <h3 class="standard_font">
                <a class="a class_name" href="link to be clicked">text to be displayed</a>
            </h3>
            <p class="word-wrap"></p>
        </div>
    </li>
</ul>

Answer 1

HTH!

private void CrawlSite()
{
    int idx = 0;
    do
    {
        idx = this.ClickLink(idx);
    }
    while (idx != -1);
}

private int ClickLink(int idx)
{
    WatiN.Core.Browser browser = GetBrowser();

    ListItemCollection listItems = browser.List("ul_classname").ListItems;
    if (idx > listItems.Count - 1)
        return -1;

    Link lnk = listItems[idx].Link(Find.ByClass("a class_name"));
    lnk.Click();

    //TODO: get your data

    browser.Back();

    return idx + 1;
}