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jamesdeath123
jamesdeath123

Reputation: 4608

Selenium web driver cannot recognize a link text

in one of the web app that I am automating, I find that I came across to some elements that have no ID or class or anything associated, or associated dynamically and won't be able to capture, therefore I have to use link text, for example, "Canada", and then when I do 

driver.FindElements(By.LinkText("Canada")).Count > 0 ,

I won't get a "True" although "Canada" is right there. Does anybody came across this before and have any idea why it is?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2022

Answers (2)

Grooveek
Grooveek

Reputation: 10094

Are you sure "Canada" is indeed in a <a> tag ? By.LinkText is meant to search for anchor text

You can certainly create a XPath to search By.xpath. Something like "//*[contains(text(),'Canada')]" (this is the only xpath I can give you without knowing your HTML structure)

Upvotes: 1

Arun
Arun

Reputation: 875

Use 

driver.switchTo().frame("Your LinkText Frame Name");
driver.FindElements(By.LinkText("Canada")).Count > 0 ;

and try.

I think it may work.

Upvotes: 2

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