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Suchet Taori
Suchet Taori

Reputation: 33

How do I click on this link using Selenium in Java

I am on this website and I am trying to click on Batch search using the selenium webDriver: https://metlin.scripps.edu/landing_page.php?pgcontent=mainPage

The HTML code for the link is:

<a href="landing_page.php?pgcontent=batch_search" style="color:white; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px">Batch Search </a >

My attempted solution is: 

driver3.findElement(By.linkText("Batch Search")).click();

However, this doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 101

Answers (2)

Valentin
Valentin

Reputation: 2858

linkText is an exact match but there's an extra space character after "Batch Search" that's not present in your query so it won't match.

Either fix the search query or use partialLinkText.

Upvotes: 1

Brydenr
Brydenr

Reputation: 798

I like to use css selectors, which would be:

String selector = "a[href=\"landing_page.php?pgcontent=batch_search\"]";
driver3.findElement(By.cssSelector(selector)).click()

Upvotes: 0

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