Selenium click on link

Question

I'm using Selenium's IDE in FireFox to do some testing, and I want Selenium to click the second link (Text2). Any idea how I do that? Unfortunately I don't have access to the HTML and can't modify it. The record function doesn't seem to register the click.

The code is attached below. Thanks in advance!

<div class="class1">
    <div class="class2">
        <span class="class3"><a href="#" onclick="fn1();">Text1</a></span>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="class1">
    <div class="class2">
        <span class="class3"><a href="#" onclick="fn2();">Text2</a></span>
    </div>
</div>

You have Text1 twice in your example... – Roddy of the Frozen Peas Jul 03 '12 at 13:45 — Roddy of the Frozen Peas, Jul 03 '12 at 13:45

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '12 at 13:49

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Selenium supports the link=Link Text locator as well. If you know the exact link text, you can use this locator, but not otherwise. So for your examples above: link=text2 or link=View Previous Statements. (See this site and this site for other locators.)

answered Jul 03 '12 at 13:49

Roddy of the Frozen Peas

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@Roddy - in that Link Text what should be given? So i should give logout in Link Text? – Emmanuel Angelo.R May 11 '15 at 09:41
@EmmanuelAngelo.R Let's say you have `Click to Logout`. Then your link text is `Click to Logout`. – Roddy of the Frozen Peas May 11 '15 at 14:42

Rohit Ware · Answer 2 · 2012-07-03T13:02:22.193

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You Can Try

//a[contains(text(),'text2')]     OR  //span/a[contains(text(),'text2')]

Looking for same or anything else?

edited Jul 03 '12 at 13:02

answered Jul 03 '12 at 12:56

Rohit Ware

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It didn't work - I'm afraid I'm woefully unfamiliar with Xpath. What exactly is that doing? – khalid13 Jul 03 '12 at 13:37
it will find text2 in tag a, and you can click on that text then. – Rohit Ware Jul 03 '12 at 13:38
[error] locator not found: //a[contains(text(),'View Previous Statements')] Where View Previous Statements = text2 – khalid13 Jul 03 '12 at 13:42
//a[contains(text(),'View Previous Statements'] try this 1 – Rohit Ware Jul 03 '12 at 13:43
Same error, unfortunately. :( [error] locator not found: //a[contains(text(),'View Previous Statements'] – khalid13 Jul 03 '12 at 13:44
can you please share HTML? For that text only – Rohit Ware Jul 03 '12 at 13:47
It's in the question, but here:

View Previous Statements

– khalid13 Jul 03 '12 at 13:49
It wasn't working either - but I got the answer from Roddy above. Thank you so much though! I appreciate the help. :) – khalid13 Jul 03 '12 at 13:53

Darren Parker · Answer 3 · 2015-04-28T18:51:56.113

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Please disregard this post. Selenium is ignoring the "Value" field and simply selecting the 1st occurrence of span.class3. Sorry about this. I should have tested more before posting.

Original post: I have a similar webpage, and I was able to use the following Selenium IDE command: command: clickAndWait target: css=span.class3 value: Text1

edited Apr 28 '15 at 18:51

answered Apr 28 '15 at 18:35

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