How to click on dynamic hyperlink which has dynamic text using Selenium Python

Question

I would like to click on the dynamic URL using selenium python from a web page. I have the following HTML where 123456 is dynamic text linked to dynamic URL. I am not able to use driver.find_element_by_link_text() as text also dynamic. Can someone please help me with this?

<td class="resultsColumn"><a href="xyz.jsp?serviceID=123456=">123456</a></td>

Note: Both URL and Text also dynamic

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '22 at 19:30

To click() on the dynamic URL using Selenium and python you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using css_selector:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "td.resultsColumn > a[href*='serviceID']").click()

Using xpath:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//td[@class='resultsColumn']/a[contains(@href, 'serviceID')]").click()

Ideally to click on the clickable element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "td.resultsColumn > a[href*='serviceID']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//td[@class='resultsColumn']/a[contains(@href, 'serviceID')]"))).click()

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

How to click on dynamic hyperlink which has dynamic text using Selenium Python

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