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Hello all.

I'm totally new to Ranorex - and i'm working with studio v.3.2.

Currently i'm trying to figure out, how to automate browsing all links within the one specific element, like for example:

<div id=""something">
<ul>
<li><a>some link</a></li>
<li><a>some other link</a></li>
<li>...

...</ul>
</div>

Pages with such "link areas" called in my example "something" have random number of links in my case - so how could i make it flexible - automatically, and force Ranorex to test all of them ?

I would be thankful for any suggestions.

Hello !

I'm not used to testing HTML but I found a way to do it :

You will find a working example attached to this post

Here are the steps:

1) In this case I added the DIVTag to a repository. (You could easily adapt this)
2) We find the ul descendant
3) We find all the li descendants
4) foreach li descendant we get the ATag and MAJ+Click the link(to open in a new window) then we close the window (ALT+F4)

Hope it will help you !

Swiss'

Here is the method I used :

public void MyMethod()
           	{
           		//Div tag which is in the body tag (you need to have browseliHtml.SomeDivTag in your repo)
           		DivTag someDivTag = new DivTag(repo.BrowseliHtml.SomeDivTag);
           		//Create the ultag adapter
           		UlTag ultag = someDivTag.FindDescendant<UlTag>();
           		//Create the list of all litag
           		IList<LiTag> LiList= ultag.FindDescendants<LiTag>();
           		//Loop through all LiTag
           		foreach(LiTag li in LiList){
           			//Create the ATag adapter
           			ATag at = li.FindDescendant<ATag>();
           			//Press Down the MAJ Key
           			Keyboard.Down(System.Windows.Forms.Keys.LShiftKey | System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Shift, Keyboard.DefaultScanCode, true);
           			//Click on the ATag
           			at.Click();
           			//Release the MAJ Key
           			Keyboard.Up(System.Windows.Forms.Keys.LShiftKey | System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Shift, Keyboard.DefaultScanCode, true);
           			//WAIT 1 sec
           			Delay.Duration(1000);
           			//Close the window we just opened
           			Keyboard.Press(System.Windows.Forms.Keys.F4 | System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Alt, Keyboard.DefaultScanCode, Keyboard.DefaultKeyPressTime, 1, true);
           			
           		}
}

Hey Swisside!

Thanks a lot for your response. I like this approach and seems to work for me - however building sophisticated browsing schemas will be hard in this case.
But as i understand - it will be natural limitation of Ranorex.

Earlier i did it with Visual WebScrapper tool - but it is a kind of customized, programmable browser, where http communication is monitored and all javascript/browser specific acions can be captured.

Anyway - your idea helps me partially, so thanks!