Delete all the ads in Selenium webdriver

Question

I want to close all the ads that appears in the webpage one by one. The ads can appear in different places, two or one in one row. I have tryed to write driver.findelement(By.xpath("//div[@id='cbb']")).click()but the problem is that all the ads have the same code for the close button. Is there another way to do it?

Answer 1

Option #1

I would suggest using JavascriptExecutor. You can basically add style='visibility: hidden;' to the HTML block (ad's HTML in your case):

public void hideElement(String xpath)
{
    WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));       
    ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].style.visibility='hidden'", element);
}

For hiding multiple elements, you would need to come up with JS function, that will hide elements and then pass it as string to the executeScript()

public void hideElements()
{

String jscode = "var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('className');
    for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++){
        elements[i].style.display = 'none';
    };";   

// escaping single / double quotes / tabs / line breaks / so on
jscode =  escapeJS(jscode);   

    ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(jscode);
}

helper function (needs this import: org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils; - you can get this library from here):

/**
 * Escapes JS.
 */
public static String escapeJS(String value) {
    return StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript(value);
}

NOTE, make sure add necessary timeouts to wait for all ads to be loaded on the page before trying to hide them

Option #2 - a bit hardcore if you don't have jQuery on your page

• IF you don't have jQuery - you can add it to DOM (that will require some Java code to be added) and then use its methods to hide elements within Java code that I posted above

• IF you have jQuery loaded on your page - just search for jQuery codes to hide HTML on the page (alternative to vanilla JS I posted above) and add those codes to Java function.