using xpath to find Href in selenium webdriver

Question

i have to find the following href using selenium in java

<tr>
   <td>
     <a target="mainFrame" href="reb.php?tiEx=ES"></a>
   </td>
</tr>

thanks

Okay... What are you looking for from us? Do you have any existing code that you've tried? — skrrgwasme
– skrrgwasme, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 15:10
Did you omit some of the quotes? Shouldn't it be target="mainFrame" href="reb.php?tiEx=ES"? Otherwise, the HTML (?) is garbage if you excuse my French. — Mathias Müller
– Mathias Müller, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 15:17
Your title says "find href" whereas in your XML sample, there is no href attribute, but target. That does not make sense to me. — Mathias Müller
– Mathias Müller, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 15:55

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-27 15:42:16Z

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There are multiple ways to find the link depending on the elements it is inside and the uniqueness of the element attribute values on the page, but, from what you've provided, you can rely on the target attribute:

//a[@target="mainFrame"]

You can also narrow it down to the scope of it's parents:

//tr/td/a[@target="mainFrame"]

Also, you can additionally check the href attribute if it is persistent and reliable:

//tr/td/a[@target="mainFrame" and @href="reb.php?tiEx=ES"]

answered Aug 27, 2014 at 15:42

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