Selenium XPath Selector for link with no text

Question

Base on this anchor link with no text inside but different children div's what I am trying to do is click on the element that takes me to another page. Sadly I have not be able to get it. Any advice? my selectors options that I have tried are below

<div id="divProducts" style="display: inline-block; text-align: center; width:100%;">
 <a class="listProd grayButton roundCorners shadow" tabindex="0" href="#" onclick="ProdOnClick(); $('#divNewApp').load('NewApplication'); return false;">
   <div style="width: 15%; display: inline-block;" aria-label="Life,">
      Life
   </div>
   <div style="width: 30%; display: inline-block;" aria-label="PA Wealth Transfer Trust,">
      PA Form
   </div>
   <div style="width: 35%; display: inline-block; font-size: large;" class="blueText">
      MT Form
   </div>
 </a>
</div>

Selenium selectors options used but with no results;

By.xpath("//*[@id='divProducts']/a[1]");
By.xpath("//*a[contains(.,'Life')]");
By.xpath("//*[@id='divProducts']/a[contains(.,'MT Form')]");
By.partialLinkText("MT Form");
By.linkText("MT Form");
By.cssSelector("a:nth-child(1) div:nth-child(3)");
By.cssSelector("#divProducts > a:nth-child(1)");

PLEASE HELP!

As far as I understand I think you want to get the `href` value of the element that can be done by using `driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div#divProducts").get_attribute('href')`. — Mr. Developer, May 04 '22 at 04:08
Try recording the scenario with Selenium IDE and see what locator gets generated. — Pallavi, May 04 '22 at 04:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '22 at 11:50

As per the HTML cliecking on either of the link texts should navigate to the same destination page.

Solution

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

Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Life"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.listProd.grayButton.roundCorners.shadow[onclick^='ProdOnClick'] div[aria-label='Life,']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='listProd grayButton roundCorners shadow' and starts-with(@onclick, 'ProdOnClick')]/div[@aria-label='Life,']"))).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

Selenium XPath Selector for link with no text

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