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Xavier Maldonado
Xavier Maldonado

Reputation: 310

Selenium how to click/ access an a tag with a href that has a javascript function

I have searched but havent found something similar to what Im trying to do. I'm using java by the way, I'm trying to click/access an a tag with selenium. The issue is that I'm not sure how to go about it. There seems to be a function/event that I need to set off but not quite sure how to. I tried a few ways as get text and clicking but I knew that wasn't going to work. Also I seen there are ways of using JavascriptExecutor but not sure how to use it for my case. I will post the tag below and alsothe function signature, that might help. If theres a similar question please post the link.

<a name="DERIVED_SSS_SCL_SSS_ENRL_CART$276$" id="DERIVED_SSS_SCL_SSS_ENRL_CART$276$" ptlinktgt="pt_peoplecode" tabindex="203" onclick="javascript:cancelBubble(event);" href="javascript:submitAction_win0(document.win0,'DERIVED_SSS_SCL_SSS_ENRL_CART$276$');" class="SSSHYPERLINKBOLDSMALL">Enrollment Shopping Cart</a>

the signature 

function submitAction_win0(form, id, event)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 278

Answers (2)

Moshe Slavin
Moshe Slavin

Reputation: 5204

EDIT:

You should use WebDriverWait to avoid NoSuchElementException this way the driver will wait until the element is clickable... it will wait up to 10 seconds you can tell it to wait more if needed...

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.partialLinkText("Student Center")));
element.click();

Using click():

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class='SSSHYPERLINKBOLDSMALL']"));
element.click();

Using JavascriptExecutor (Not recommended):

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class='SSSHYPERLINKBOLDSMALL']"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

You can use other locators too... like linkText:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Enrollment Shopping Cart"));

Or partialLinkText:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Shopping Cart"));

Upvotes: 1

pburgr
pburgr

Reputation: 1778

You don't need any JS. Just use this xpath:

"//a[contains(@onclick,'javascript:cancelBubble(event);')]"

Be sure the element is clickable, see

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

for the case of more matches:

    List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[contains(@onclick,'javascript:cancelBubble(event);')]"));
    int elementIndex = 0; // 0 to get first of the 33 mathes, 32 to get the last one
    WebElement element = elements.get(elementIndex);
    element.click();

Upvotes: 1

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