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Naji Shaban
Naji Shaban

Reputation: 51

How to click on a hyperlink in Selenium using c#

I am just starting on Selenium. I am trying to invoke click actions upon links on a web page, but for some reason, selenium.click() event is not even showing on the intellisense! inside the foreach loop. Below is partial code of what I am trying to do.

    IWebDriver driver;
    driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");
    List<IWebElement> links = new List<IWebElement>();
    links= driver.FindElements(By.TagName("a")).ToList();
    //driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("YouTube")).Click();
    foreach (var link in links)
    {
        OpenQA.Selenium....;
        ..
    }

Please note that the click works fine in the commented line above the foreach loop. Am I missing a reference?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 31826

Answers (4)

Madhu
Madhu

Reputation: 497

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("")).Click();

or 

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("")).SendKeys(Open.QA.Selenium.Keys.Enter);

Either way is possible

Upvotes: 0

Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng

Reputation: 32845

Why do you expect selenium.Click(); to show up? From the code you provided, looks like you are using WebDriver, not Selenium RC or WebDriverBackSelenium. You probably should consider using something like link.Click();.

Here is what I do using WebDriver, which works fine for me.

IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");

// find directly, note it's not in the <a> but in <span>
// driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[text()='YouTube']")).Click();

// your logic with LINQ
IList<IWebElement> links = driver.FindElements(By.TagName("a"));
links.First(element => element.Text == "YouTube").Click();

// your logic with traditional foreach loop
foreach (var link in links) {
    if (link.Text == "YouTube") {
        link.Click();
        break;
    }
}

driver.Quit();

Upvotes: 7

user2029530
user2029530

Reputation: 1

Can you try casting he link to IWebELement in your foreach loop like:

 foreach(IWebELelent link in links) 
{
------
-----
}

Upvotes: 0

Arian
Arian

Reputation: 3241

I guess the By method is not finding your TagName. Try the By.LinkText("a") instead:

links= driver.FindElements(By.LinkText("a")).ToList();

Or try other By methods (id,className,...)

€:

List<IWebElement> links = new List<IWebElement>();
    links.add(driver.FindElements(By.TagName("a")));
    //driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("YouTube")).Click();

links.get(0).click();

Upvotes: 0

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