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Michael Durrant
Michael Durrant

Reputation: 96484

selenium - how to click on a link based on its text using css instead of xpath and without using the contains operator?

I try to use css locators over xpath when I can.

I have the following xpath locator that I would like to change to css:

//table[@id='service_schedule_sets']//a[text()='OptimalTest']

I would like to use a css locator. I wish to avoid using contains as there are support issues in later versions of css (i.e. contains was removed from css2 and css3 (css2 removal was a very last minute thing) that selenium covers up but I would like to avoid.

I am trying:

css=table#service_schedule_sets a[.='OptimalTest')

but it doesn't find the element.

The HTML is:

<td>
  <a href="service_schedule_sets/905">OptimalTest</a>
</td>

Notes:

I want to use the text in the link ('OptimalTest') not the href. I do not want to use link=OptimalTest approach as it is not specific enough.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 897

Answers (1)

Marlon Bernardes
Marlon Bernardes

Reputation: 13853

CSS selectors do not support node selection based on their text content.

Actually there was a suggestion for a pseudo class :contains which would suit your needs, but it was removed from CSS 3 spec.

Upvotes: 1

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