How to click on a hyperlink in Selenium using c#

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I am just starting on Selenium. I am trying to invoke click actions upon links on a web page, but for some reason, selenium.click() event is not even showing on the intellisense! inside the foreach loop. Below is partial code of what I am trying to do.

    IWebDriver driver;
    driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");
    List<IWebElement> links = new List<IWebElement>();
    links= driver.FindElements(By.TagName("a")).ToList();
    //driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("YouTube")).Click();
    foreach (var link in links)
    {
        OpenQA.Selenium....;
        ..
    }

Please note that the click works fine in the commented line above the foreach loop. Am I missing a reference?

Yi Zeng · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-12 00:01:50Z

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Why do you expect selenium.Click(); to show up? From the code you provided, looks like you are using WebDriver, not Selenium RC or WebDriverBackSelenium. You probably should consider using something like link.Click();.

Here is what I do using WebDriver, which works fine for me.

IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");

// find directly, note it's not in the <a> but in <span>
// driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[text()='YouTube']")).Click();

// your logic with LINQ
IList<IWebElement> links = driver.FindElements(By.TagName("a"));
links.First(element => element.Text == "YouTube").Click();

// your logic with traditional foreach loop
foreach (var link in links) {
    if (link.Text == "YouTube") {
        link.Click();
        break;
    }
}

driver.Quit();

edited Sep 12, 2013 at 0:01

answered Mar 13, 2012 at 7:08

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Arian · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28 15:07:21Z

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I guess the By method is not finding your TagName. Try the By.LinkText("a") instead:

links= driver.FindElements(By.LinkText("a")).ToList();

Or try other By methods (id,className,...)

€:

List<IWebElement> links = new List<IWebElement>();
    links.add(driver.FindElements(By.TagName("a")));
    //driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("YouTube")).Click();

links.get(0).click();

edited Feb 28, 2012 at 15:07

answered Feb 27, 2012 at 10:23

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Naji Shaban Over a year ago

Actually, it does. The problem I am facing is that within the loop, selenium.click(...) should be available as I saw in many examples. However, it is not there. Selenium does not list click() as an available method that I can use. The ...ToList() actually fills the links list with all the available links on the page and they are all correct.

Arian Over a year ago

maybe you got something wrong in your code. I'm java programmer, from my point of view you define links as a method? I would possibly write it like in my above edited answer

Ivan Ferić · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21 12:14:20Z

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Can you try casting he link to IWebELement in your foreach loop like:

 foreach(IWebELelent link in links) 
{
------
-----
}

edited Mar 21, 2013 at 12:14

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Brian · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08 21:43:08Z

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driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("")).Click();

or

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("")).SendKeys(Open.QA.Selenium.Keys.Enter);

Either way is possible

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