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Santhosh Siddappa
Santhosh Siddappa

Reputation: 718

How to access the link by searching its text in Selenium WebDriver?

I have a HTML File hierarchy in tree structure in a web page as shown in picture.

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The HTML code is 

<div class="rtMid rtSelected">
    < span class="rtSp"/>
    < img class="rtImg" alt="Automation" src="http://192.168.1.6/eprint_prod_3.8/images/StoreImages/close_folder.png"/>
    < span class="rtIn" title="Automation">Automation (1)</span>
</div>

In Selenium WebDriver is there a way to click on the Automation (1) link by searching only the text I don't want to use XPath reason is the location will be changing so is there a way to find it by its text and click on it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1373

Answers (3)

user3487861
user3487861

Reputation: 350

2 Approaches

Approach 1:

By Class Name:

Here we are having class Name for the Text Automation (1) that is rtIn. Perform driver.findElement(By.className("rtIn")).click();

Approach 2:

By CSS Selector of Parent and Class Name

CSS Selector of Parent:.rtSelected

WebElement element1 = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".rtSelected")) element1.className("rtIn").click();

Approach 3:

By Direct CSS Selector: 1. .rtIn 2. .rtSelected > .rtIn

It is better to use the second CSS Selector

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".rtSelected > .rtIn")).click();

Upvotes: 0

Santhosh Siddappa
Santhosh Siddappa

Reputation: 718

searching by title worked well 

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(@title,'Automation')]")).click();

Upvotes: 0

Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng

Reputation: 32845

XPath is powerful, you found it's unreliable you are not using it right. Spend some time at XPath Tutorial please.

This is a simple solution to your question, but there could be many other things you need to think about. E.g. matching title and text, etc.

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//span[text()='Automation (1)']")).click();

CSS selector is also powerful and faster, more readable than XPath. But in your case, it doesn't support find by text.

Upvotes: 2

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