Selenium - Click on link

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I am trying to click on a link which is in a list. As can be seen from the screenshot I am trying to click on the "Algeria" link. How can I get there?

capture of list and elements

The Css is as follows - #\33 \2c ALG

xpath is - //*[@id="3,ALG"]

I have tried finding it by xpath and cssSelector but with no luck

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-28 15:29:42Z

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By.linkText() locator fits here perfectly:

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Algeria")).click();

You might also need to add an Explicit Wait to wait for element to be present:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10);

WebElement link = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.linkText("Algeria"))); 
link.click();

You may also need to open up the list before clicking the link:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10);

WebElement linkList = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.className("oList"))); 
linkList.click();

WebElement link = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("Algeria"))); 
link.click();

edited Jul 28, 2015 at 15:29

answered Jul 28, 2015 at 15:24

alecxe

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James King Over a year ago

sadly tried that and get the following exception: Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element

James King Over a year ago

Sadly I get an exception with both. The last answer I get the following exception: Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"oList"}

alecxe Over a year ago

@JamesKing thanks, do you have any (i)frame elements on the page?

James King Over a year ago

yep <iframe class="clsGrayborder" id="frmCountry" style="BACKGROUND: #e8e8e8" name="frmCountry" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="pfa_Country.aspx" width="100%"></iframe>

alecxe Over a year ago

@JamesKing okay, then, you need to switch to it before making an element search: driver.switch_to.frame("frmCountry"). Then, after you are done working inside the iframe, switch back to the default content: driver.switch_to.default_content().

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