Selenium to click a link in href which in

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I want to use selenium to click on the "?currentPage=3" for example, on the website itself the button you click redirects to the href, however when I use selenium, nothing happens. I have tried so many iterations and also looked up similar guides, yet to no avail.

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                        <a href="?currentPage=3">Tööraamatu kasutajale</a>
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undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-09-20T19:19:45.370

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To Click() on the element you have to induce WebDriverWait for the ElementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

LinkText:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.LinkText("Tööraamatu kasutajale"))).Click();

CssSelector:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.CssSelector("li > a[href='?currentPage=3']"))).Click();

XPath:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.XPath("//li/a[@href='?currentPage=3' and text()='Tööraamatu kasutajale']"))).Click();

Update

Possibly you need SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers and you can use either of the following solutions:

LinkText:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.LinkText("Tööraamatu kasutajale"))).Click();

CssSelector:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.CssSelector("li > a[href='?currentPage=3']"))).Click();

XPath:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.XPath("//li/a[@href='?currentPage=3' and text()='Tööraamatu kasutajale']"))).Click();

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible returns TimeoutException even when element is present

edited Sep 20 '20 at 19:19

answered Sep 20 '20 at 18:34

undetected Selenium

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the ExpectedConditions line is giving me an error The name 'ExpectedConditions' does not exist in the current context I am using "using openQA.Selenium.Support.IO;" and "using openQA.Selenium.Support.IO.ExpectedConditions;" apparently does not exist anymore or is deprecated – Chris Sep 20 '20 at 18:59
@Chris Checkout the updated answer and ;et me know the status. – undetected Selenium Sep 20 '20 at 19:20
Firstly, i want to thank you for replying even after a answer, i am new to stackoverflow and so far it is so amazing to get in realtime guidance or points in the right direction, i even leave you a like if i had more reputation. however even now, the same error seems to be happening. I also tried all 3 versions, CSS, xpath and linktext – Chris Sep 20 '20 at 19:30
NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Tööraamatu kasutajale"} (Session info: chrome=85.0.4183.102) – Chris Sep 20 '20 at 19:30
@Chris Try the other two locators. – undetected Selenium Sep 20 '20 at 19:32
yeah, my bad i edited it a little bit late, i already did, none of them seem to be working – Chris Sep 20 '20 at 19:36
Each one essentially gives the same error of Unable to locate element – Chris Sep 20 '20 at 19:37
@Chris To address **NoSuchElementException** check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47993443/selenium-selenium-common-exceptions-nosuchelementexception-when-using-chrome/47995294#47995294) and [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48471321/nosuchelementexception-selenium-unable-to-locate-element/48472940#48472940) discussion. – undetected Selenium Sep 21 '20 at 21:48

Selenium to click a link in href which in

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