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Shakti saxena
Shakti saxena

Reputation: 183

how to select anchor with class name in it

I am trying to automate testing for my webpage. on webpage, I need to select an anchor with a class name and text. the anchor is enclosed in a div element. 

<div class="margins0300">
<a tabindex="-32768" class="buttonLinkText">Hilfe</a>
</div>

I am trying to access <a> with Selenium internet explorer webdriver but not able to. here is my code: 

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[contains(@class,'buttonLinkText') and .//text()='Hilfe']"));

but when I execute it, no element is found.

I would really appreciate if someone can help me with it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1956

Answers (2)

Shakti saxena
Shakti saxena

Reputation: 183

That's how I found the answer because div element was enclosed in a frame and as per input from @saurabhgaur:

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://websunp8.bk.datev.de/zws/ShowMenu.do");
            driver.SwitchTo().Frame("content");

  driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@class = 'buttonLinkText'  and text() = 'Hilfe']")).Click();

Upvotes: 0

Saurabh Gaur
Saurabh Gaur

Reputation: 23805

Actually you're passing syntax as xpath while try to find element using By.CssSelector() which is wrong. You should try using By.Xpath() as below :-

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//a[@class = 'buttonLinkText' and text() = 'Hilfe']"));

You can also find this element using By.LinkText() as below :-

driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Hilfe"));

Edited :- If you're still unable to find this element try using WebDriverWait to wait until element exists as below :-

IWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3))
IWebElement element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Xpath("//a[@class = 'buttonLinkText' and text() = 'Hilfe']")));

Note :- Make sure this element is not inside any frame/iframe. If it is you need to switch that frame/iframe before finding element as :-

driver.SwitchTo().Frame("frame/iframe name or id");

//Now find the element using above code

//After doing all stuff inside frame/iframe you need to switch back to default content 
driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();

Upvotes: 2

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