Python selenium webdriver click functionality

Question

Does anyone know how you can click on a link based on the href using the python webdriver bindings. In waitr-webdriver you can do something like this:

browser.link(:href => "http://www.testsite.com/pageOne.html").click

But I haven't be able to find a similar function in the python webdriver. All there is are

find_element_by_class_name
find_element_by_css_selector
find_element_by_id
find_element_by_link_text
find_element_by_name
find_element_by_partial_link_text
find_element_by_tag_name
find_element_by_xpath

These are great methods but the site I am testing has no ID's or Classes in their links. So the only unique thing about the links are the href url.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JimEvans · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-12 20:20:56Z

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Under the covers, watir-webdriver is converting the call to find the link where the href attribute is a given value into a WebDriver find-by-XPath expression. Mimicing this in your own code, the appropriate way to handle this in Python would be:

# assume driver is an instance of WebDriver
# NOTE: this code is untested
driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//a[@href='http://www.testsite.com/pageOne.html']")

Alternatively, you could use CSS selectors (which would be faster on IE) as follows:

# again, assume driver is an instance of WebDriver
# NOTE: this code is untested
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[href='http://www.testsite.com/pageOne.html']")

answered Jul 12, 2011 at 20:20

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hackthisjay Over a year ago

Thanks you. I think this will help greatly.

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