Which locator strategies can be used to find the element in selenium for the below code

Question

Which locator to use to find the element yearbook? Tried using LinkText also including all other locators. Seems like not working

<a href="#" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#menu-yearbooks" class="collapsed noRewrite" xpath="1">
    Yearbooks
    <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-up"></i>
    </a>

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '19 at 07:58

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use this xpath

//*[contains(text(),'Yearbooks')]

answered Mar 08 '19 at 07:58

Waqar Nadir

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Tried that too. But getting "org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException" – cshet Mar 08 '19 at 08:02
Please add some explanation to your query – Nico Haase Mar 08 '19 at 08:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '19 at 08:01

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As per the HTML you can use only the following Locator Strategies:

LinkText:
```
Yearbooks   
```

Xpath:

"//a[@class='collapsed noRewrite' and contains(@data-target, 'menu-yearbooks')]"

answered Mar 08 '19 at 08:01

undetected Selenium

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Thank you so much :) Xpath is working fine. But linkText is not working.still figuring out why linkText is not working – cshet Mar 08 '19 at 08:08
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Sure. I did :) Any idea why linkText is not working? – cshet Mar 08 '19 at 08:12
There is a _child_ `` tag for the desired `` tag. As _Selenium_ mocks the `click()` right in the middle of the element, it may not be happening at the intended coordinates. – undetected Selenium Mar 08 '19 at 08:14

Which locator strategies can be used to find the element in selenium for the below code

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