Selenium click link-How to click a href link using Selenium

4.0K Asked by BernadetteBond in Business Analyst , Asked on May 4, 2021

I have an html href link

using Selenium I need to click the link. Currently, I am using below code -

Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='App Configuration']")).click();

But it's not redirecting to the page. I also tried below code -

 Driver.findElement(By.xpath(//a[@href ='/docs/configuration']")).click();

But this is throwing below exception -

org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout: 13 milliseconds

The link is visible and the page is completely loaded. Can anyone help with this?

Answered by Brian Kennedy

    webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/docs/configuration']")).click();

The above line works fine. Please remove the space after href.

If the element is not visible please scroll down the page then perform click the action

selenium click link-How to click a href link using Selenium

App Configuration

Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='App Configuration']")).click();

Driver.findElement(By.xpath(//a[@href ='/docs/configuration']")).click();

Your Answer

Answer (1)

Ranjana

To click a link with Selenium in Python, you can use the find_element_by_link_text() or find_element_by_partial_link_text() method to locate the link by its visible text. Here's an example using find_element_by_link_text():

from selenium import webdriver

# Initialize the WebDriver (assuming Chrome in this case)

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Navigate to the webpage containing the link

driver.get("https://example.com")

# Find and click the link using its visible text

link_text = "Your Link Text"

link_element = driver.find_element_by_link_text(link_text)

link_element.click()

# Close the WebDriver

driver.quit()

If you prefer to locate the link by a partial text match, you can use find_element_by_partial_link_text() instead:

from selenium import webdriver

# Initialize the WebDriver (assuming Chrome in this case)

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Navigate to the webpage containing the link

driver.get("https://example.com")

# Find and click the link using its partial visible text

partial_link_text = "Partial Link Text"

link_element = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text(partial_link_text)

link_element.click()

# Close the WebDriver

driver.quit()

Replace "Your Link Text" or "Partial Link Text" with the actual text of the link you want to click. Make sure to replace "https://example.com" with the URL of the webpage containing the link you want to click.

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