Selenium click on link

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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
– Roddy of the Frozen Peas

2012-07-03 13:45:51 +00:00
Commented Jul 3, 2012 at 13:45 — Roddy of the Frozen Peas
– Roddy of the Frozen Peas, Commented Jul 3, 2012 at 13:45

Roddy of the Frozen Peas · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-03 13:49:01Z

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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 3, 2012 at 13:49

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Emmanuel Angelo.R Over a year ago

@Roddy - in that Link Text what should be given? <a title="Logout" href="/base/base/base.en"> So i should give logout in Link Text?

Roddy of the Frozen Peas Over a year ago

@EmmanuelAngelo.R Let's say you have <a href="/logout">Click to Logout</a>. Then your link text is Click to Logout.

Rohit Ware · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-03 13:02:22Z

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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 3, 2012 at 13:02

answered Jul 3, 2012 at 12:56

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khalid13 Over a year ago

It didn't work - I'm afraid I'm woefully unfamiliar with Xpath. What exactly is that doing?

Rohit Ware Over a year ago

it will find text2 in tag a, and you can click on that text then.

khalid13 Over a year ago

[error] locator not found: //a[contains(text(),'View Previous Statements')] Where View Previous Statements = text2

Rohit Ware Over a year ago

//a[contains(text(),'View Previous Statements'] try this 1

khalid13 Over a year ago

Same error, unfortunately. :( [error] locator not found: //a[contains(text(),'View Previous Statements']

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Darren Parker · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-28 18:51:56Z

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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, 2015 at 18:51

answered Apr 28, 2015 at 18:35

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