{"id":2583,"date":"2023-10-30T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2023-12-03T06:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T06:49:27","slug":"locate-webelements-using-linktext-and-partiallinktext-methods-in-selenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/locate-webelements-using-linktext-and-partiallinktext-methods-in-selenium\/","title":{"rendered":"Locate WebElements using LinkText and PartialLinkText methods in selenium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What you will Learn in this blog:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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


    <\/strong>linkText() method usage in selenium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Let us now see the usage of \u2018linkText()<\/em>\u2019 method in selenium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Launch https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There are many links on the home page like News, Sport<\/em> etc as can be seen below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us inspect any link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Notice below that the link is represented by tag \u2018a<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    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\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    When you run this script, notice that the \u2018News\u2019 link gets clicked and the \u2018News\u2019 page opens as shown below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us now click \u2018Sport\u2019 link<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Save and execute, the sports page comes up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us now change \u2018Sport\u2019 to \u2018s<\/strong>port\u2019 and see whether sport link will be clicked or not<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Execute, notice below we get \u2018NoSuchElementException\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    This means that, the text is case sensitive and hence we should write the exact text that is seen on website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PartialLinkText() method usage in selenium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Launch https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\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     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    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\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    When you run this script, notice below that the link is clicked and the news page opens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us see another example, launch https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/selenium-real-time-examplesinterview-questions\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Inspect the link \u2018Rahul Shetty\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us use the partial text of this link \u2018Shetty\u2019 to click the link<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Execute the script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Notice that the link is clicked and the page scrolls down<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    So this is how we can use linkText()<\/em> and partialLinkText()<\/em> methods to click the links on a webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Source code<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n
    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    What you will Learn in this blog: linkText() method usage in selenium Let us now see the usage of \u2018linkText()\u2019 method in selenium. Launch https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/  There are many links on the home page like News, Sport etc as can be seen below Let us inspect any link.  Notice below that the link is represented by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","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":9,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"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}]}}