Selenium - How to Click a Link by href value in WebDriver

Question

I have this piece of code

<a href="/iot/apply/device.do" id="subMenu1" class="fortification55"
                                                        onclick="$('#deviceinfo').hide()">Apply</a>

I am trying to link by href using

getDriver().findElement(By.name("subMenu1")).click();

But i got this error

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to find element with name == subMenu1 (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

You can also directly use `getDriver().findElement(By.linkText("Apply")).click();` — Siva, Aug 22 '16 at 11:58
you can also use xpaths: `//a[@id='subMenu1']` or `//a[text()='Apply']` — kotoj, Aug 22 '16 at 12:07
You can use as : `getDriver().findElement(By.className("fortification55")).click();` — Saurabh Gaur, Aug 22 '16 at 12:13

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-06-29T14:01:54.747

As the element is having the onclick Event, the WebElement is a JavaScript enabled element. So to invoke click() on the element you need to use WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using cssSelector and only href attribute:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("a[href='/iot/apply/device.do']"))).click();

Using xpath and only href attribute:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@href='/iot/apply/device.do' and text()='Apply']"))).click();

Using a canonical cssSelector:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("a.fortification55#subMenu1[href='/iot/apply/device.do']"))).click();

Using a canonical xpath:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@class='fortification55' and @id='subMenu1'][@href='/iot/apply/device.do' and text()='Apply']"))).click();

Note : You have to add the following imports :

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions on NoSuchElementException in:

@nice answer that should resolve the issue , and nice explination well done — Asmoun, Jun 30 '20 at 07:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 30 '20 at 08:47

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the following code should work :

By.xpath("//a[@href='/iot/apply/device.do']")

edited Jun 30 '20 at 08:47

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