How to click tag in selenium

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Below is my code.Am pasting my entire tag

<TR id="oldcontent" bgcolor="#D0D0D0">
<TD  id="oldcontent">Foot-OM</TD>
 <a id="oldcontent" href="ID=22143"><u>Re-Submit</u></a>
 <a id="oldcontent" href="ID=22143"><u>View</u></a>
<TR>

Here i need to click the tag with Re-Submit text.The issue is href="ID=22143",id value gets generated dynamically everytime i execute the test case.So i need to click the Re-submit tag using text present in first text,i.e Foot-OM.Can anyone provide me the xpath>

Abhishek_Mishra · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-26T06:41:26.027

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You can click on it like this :

selenium.click("//a/u[contains(text(),'Re-Submit')]");

For Webdriver :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a/u[contains(text(),'Re-Submit')]")).click();

edited Feb 26 '17 at 06:41

answered Dec 04 '12 at 05:27

Abhishek_Mishra

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where can I find the selenium object of selenium.click in c#? I'm only familiar with driver.FindElement(... – Rod Feb 24 '17 at 22:05

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '12 at 16:56

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In ruby Selenium webdriver

@driver.find_element(:link, "Re-Submit" ).click

using selenium RC perl

$sel->click("link=Re-Submit");

answered Dec 03 '12 at 16:56

Amey

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Am not using selenium webdriver.just using selenium – cxyz Dec 03 '12 at 16:57
I thought you had selenium2 as one of your tags? – Amey Dec 03 '12 at 16:58
anyways edited my answer to include selenium RC implementation. – Amey Dec 03 '12 at 17:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 03 '12 at 20:17

Looks like your problem is in incorrect HTML structure. Tag <a> can't be put into <tr>. Only <td> is allowed there. Browser "fixes" errors and your tags <a> appear outside the table and DOM-structure is not the same as html.

Fixed DOM by Browser

This XPath works for the picture above

//td[text()='Foot-OM']/../../../../a[//text()='Re-Submit']

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 02 '13 at 11:44

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U can simply write 1.selenium.click("link=Re-Submit") and 2.selenium.click("link-View").

answered Jan 02 '13 at 11:44

Virendra Joshi

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How to click tag in selenium

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