How To Automate Pagination Using Selenium Java?

Pagination can be handled in multiple ways using Selenium and the steps to implement one of the widely used techniques in a professional framework is as mentioned below:

• Step-1: Wait for the page to load properly.
• Step-2: Scroll to the "Next" button.
• Step-3: Wait till the page loads completely.
• Step-4: Use a loop and boolean flags to handle changing values.

Additionally, it is assumed that the element is clickable.

Code Stack

• Step-1: Navigate to the required application

  driver.get(application url);

• Step-2: Wait for the page to load

  Thread.sleep(10000) //time in ms

• Step-3: Initialize WebDriver to JavascriptExecutor

  JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;

• Step-4: Locating element by link text and storing it in variable "element"

  WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Required Element"));

• Step-5: Scrolling down the page till the element is found

  js.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element);

• Step-6: Click on the next button

  element.click();

• Step-7: Wait for the page to load completely

  Thread.sleep(10000) //time in ms