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Reputation: 843

How to click <a> tag in selenium

Below is my code.Am pasting my entire tag

<TR id="oldcontent" bgcolor="#D0D0D0">
<TD  id="oldcontent">Foot-OM</TD>
 <a id="oldcontent" href="ID=22143"><u>Re-Submit</u></a>
 <a id="oldcontent" href="ID=22143"><u>View</u></a>
<TR>

Here i need to click the tag with Re-Submit text.The issue is href="ID=22143",id value gets generated dynamically everytime i execute the test case.So i need to click the Re-submit tag using text present in first text,i.e Foot-OM.Can anyone provide me the xpath>

Upvotes: 5

Views: 36058

Answers (4)

Abhishek_Mishra
Abhishek_Mishra

Reputation: 4621

You can click on it like this :

selenium.click("//a/u[contains(text(),'Re-Submit')]");

For Webdriver :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a/u[contains(text(),'Re-Submit')]")).click();

Upvotes: 8

Virendra Joshi
Virendra Joshi

Reputation: 479

U can simply write 1.selenium.click("link=Re-Submit") and 2.selenium.click("link-View").

Upvotes: 0

Igor Khrol
Igor Khrol

Reputation: 1788

Looks like your problem is in incorrect HTML structure. Tag <a> can't be put into <tr>. Only <td> is allowed there. Browser "fixes" errors and your tags <a> appear outside the table and DOM-structure is not the same as html.

Fixed DOM by Browser

This XPath works for the picture above 

//td[text()='Foot-OM']/../../../../a[//text()='Re-Submit']

Upvotes: 0

Amey
Amey

Reputation: 8548

In ruby Selenium webdriver

@driver.find_element(:link, "Re-Submit" ).click

using selenium RC perl 

$sel->click("link=Re-Submit");

Upvotes: 2

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