Selenium @FindBy linkText or @FindBy partialLinkText not working

Question

I'm working for automation, I'm trying to click on an element ,this element has no id, classname so I'm using the xpath. To improve my code I would like to find this element by href, so I'm using:

@FindBy(linkText="Transfer")
WebElement transferBtn;

I also tried with:

@FindBy(partialLinkText="Transfer")
WebElement transferBtn;

But my code doesn't find the webElement, it's working for other href but not all. I think the problem is developer tools, i'll show you the element:

<a href="#">My transfer</a>

Do you have any idea of the problem, why it's not working? Thanks.

Answer 1

Change Transfer to My transfer

@FindBy(linkText="My transfer")
WebElement transferBtn;

OR Change Transfer to transfer

@FindBy(partialLinkText="transfer")
WebElement transferBtn;

Answer 2

As per the HTML you have shared you can use either of the following solutions:

• linkText:

  @FindBy(linkText = "My transfer")
  WebElement transferBtn;
  

• partialLinkText:

  @FindBy(partialLinkText = "transfer")
  WebElement transferBtn;
  

• xpath:

  @FindBy(xpath  = "//a[contains(.,'My transfer')]")
  WebElement transferBtn;
  

Answer 3

I hope this will work

@FindBy(xpath = "//a[text()='My transfer']");
WebElement Transferbtn;