How to find an element present in data-hook through selenium

Question

I have the HTML code as:

<a class="a-size-base a-link-normal review-title a-color-base a-text-bold" data-hook="review-title" href="/gp/customer-reviews/R252N8IFRXV8TW/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B071NZZHF9">Security concern</a>

and i have to search the element by data-hook as the class name is common for other attributes also and href and link-text are dynamic as it is changing for the next element as there are multiple elements that i need to fetch.

Can i search it by data-hook. If yes could someone help me with it!

Possible duplicate of [Find element by attribute](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26304224/find-element-by-attribute) — Gal Shaboodi, Dec 05 '17 at 09:11
@Anshul Srivastava please use the answer below. Let me know your requirements. — Mahmud Riad, Dec 05 '17 at 09:12
Please add some more html portion of your webpage. So that exact solution can be found. — Mahmud Riad, Dec 06 '17 at 06:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '17 at 09:08

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Sure you can.

CSS:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[data-hook='review-title']"));

Xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@data-hook='review-title']"));

answered Dec 05 '17 at 09:08

Fenio

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Hi, thanks for the help, im able to get using xpath. Thanks :) – Anshul Srivastava Dec 06 '17 at 07:18
@AnshulSrivastava Accept my answer if it helped! Thanks :) – Fenio Dec 06 '17 at 09:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '17 at 09:11

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You can also use the below code if multiple data-hook item you need.

List<WebElement> list = driver.findElements(By.className("review-title"));

for(WebElement elem : list){
    System.out.println(elem.getAttribute("data-hook"));
}

answered Dec 05 '17 at 09:11

Mahmud Riad

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I have already tried using the above code, but i still cannot get the output as it is not able to click on the element. – Anshul Srivastava Dec 06 '17 at 06:32
Please add some more html portion of your webpage. So that exact solution can be found – Mahmud Riad Dec 06 '17 at 06:38

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '17 at 09:38

As per the HTML you have shared to find the element through data-hook attribute you can use the following line of code :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@data-hook='review-title']"));

Though you mentioned class name is common it will be a good practice to keep the class name attribute in the xpath as follows :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='a-size-base a-link-normal review-title a-color-base a-text-bold' and @data-hook='review-title']"));

Further, though you mentioned href is changing, I will suggest to use the combination of all the three attributes to uniquely identify the element as :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='a-size-base a-link-normal review-title a-color-base a-text-bold' and contains(@href,'/gp/customer-reviews/') and @data-hook='review-title']"));

Hi @DebanjanB i tried using all the above solution but i was not able to click the element. I tried giving wait of 20 seconds by using WebDriverWait, but still no luck. — Anshul Srivastava, Dec 06 '17 at 06:30

How to find an element present in data-hook through selenium

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