How to click on a link with trailing white-space characters on a web page?

Question

There are links like this on a web page:

Overview
General Settings
AR Server Settings
Cache Settings
Report Settings
Web Service Settings
Log Settings
Change Password

I am writing an automation script in selenium under Java eclipse and want to click on Cache Settings option. Can some one help? I know this would be simple, but i am a newbie in this world.i am able to automate previous steps til coming to this web page and now stuck in clicking Cache settings.

HTML snippet:

<div class="textMainNav">Cache Settings </div> 
<div class="textMainNav">Report Settings </div>

I have tried few things but none working.

all these elemets are links? and straightway displayed on page? — murali selenium, Dec 26 '18 at 09:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '18 at 09:49

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To click on the links you can use either of the following solutons:

Click on Overview:

xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='textMainNav' and normalize-space()='Overview']")).click();

answered Dec 26 '18 at 09:49

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can you elaborate on `normalize-space()`? thanks! (I just use `text()=`) – Moshe Slavin Dec 26 '18 at 09:56
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`normalize-space()` method is used to trim the spaces. if there are space before or after your string then `text()` method won't work. alternatively, for partial match you can use `contains()` method e.g. `//div[@class='textMainNav'][contains(.,'Overview')]` – NarendraR Dec 26 '18 at 10:09
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@NarendraR Thanks for the explanation! – Moshe Slavin Dec 26 '18 at 10:59
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Hello Debanjan this is correct ..Thanks for your response. Appreciate it. – Sidharath Saini Dec 26 '18 at 14:45

How to click on a link with trailing white-space characters on a web page?

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