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linkText() method usage in selenium<\/li>\n
partialLinkText() method usage in selenium<\/li>\n
Source code<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

<\/strong>linkText() method usage in selenium<\/strong><\/p>\n
Let us now see the usage of \u2018linkText()<\/em>\u2019 method in selenium.<\/p>\n
Launch https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are many links on the home page like News, Sport<\/em> etc as can be seen below<\/p>\n
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Let us inspect any link.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Notice below that the link is represented by tag \u2018a<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n
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We can easily click this link by using linkText()<\/em><\/strong> method, see below. This method uses an exact match against the text present on website (in this example, the exact text should be \u2018News\u2019)<\/p>\n
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When you run this script, notice that the \u2018News\u2019 link gets clicked and the \u2018News\u2019 page opens as shown below<\/p>\n
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Let us now click \u2018Sport\u2019 link<\/p>\n
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Save and execute, the sports page comes up<\/p>\n
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Let us now change \u2018Sport\u2019 to \u2018s<\/strong>port\u2019 and see whether sport link will be clicked or not<\/p>\n
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Execute, notice below we get \u2018NoSuchElementException\u2019<\/p>\n
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This means that, the text is case sensitive and hence we should write the exact text that is seen on website.<\/p>\n
PartialLinkText() method usage in selenium<\/strong><\/p>\n
Launch https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n
Right click and inspect any news. As an example, the text of the below news is quite huge \u2018Record surge in days over key 1.5C warming limit<\/em>\u2019. In such cases, it is not a good idea to use linkText()<\/em>, because, in that case, we have to write the entire text for the exact match\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Instead, we can use \u2018partialLinkText()<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 method. The advantage with this method is that, we can use only a partial text instead of whole text. So if you see the above figure, we can use partial text, for example, \u2018over key\u2019 to find the link and click it<\/p>\n
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When you run this script, notice below that the link is clicked and the news page opens<\/p>\n
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Next, if we change \u2018over key\u2019 to \u2018O<\/strong>ver key\u2019 and run the script, we will get the \u2018NoSuchElementException\u2019 as expected. The text is case-sensitive\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"\"$ <\/figure>\nLet us see another example, launch https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/selenium-real-time-examplesinterview-questions\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n
Inspect the link \u2018Rahul Shetty\u2019<\/p>\n
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Let us use the partial text of this link \u2018Shetty\u2019 to click the link<\/p>\n
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Execute the script.<\/p>\n
Notice that the link is clicked and the page scrolls down<\/p>\n
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So this is how we can use linkText()<\/em> and partialLinkText()<\/em> methods to click the links on a webpage.<\/p>\n
Source code<\/span><\/p>\n
package Intro;\n\nimport org.openqa.selenium.By;\n\nimport org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;\n\nimport org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;\n\nimport io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;\n\npublic class SeleniumScript {\n\npublic static void main(String[] args) {\n\nWebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();\n\nWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();\n\n\/\/linkText method\n\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\");\n\ndriver.findElement(By.linkText(\"News\")).click();\n\ndriver.navigate().back();\n\ndriver.findElement(By.linkText(\"Sport\")).click();\n\ndriver.navigate().back();\n\n\/\/partialLinkText method\n\ndriver.findElement(By.partialLinkText(\"over key\")).click();\n\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/selenium-real-time-examplesinterview-questions\/\");\n\ndriver.findElement(By.partialLinkText(\"Shetty\")).click();\n\n}\n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/figure>\nThank you for reading!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What you will Learn in this blog: linkText() method usage in selenium partialLinkText() method usage in selenium Source code linkText() method usage in selenium Let us now see the usage of \u2018linkText()\u2019 method in selenium. Launch https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\u00a0 There are many links on the home page like News, Sport etc as can be seen below Let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selenium","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}