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I have one button from one LinkedIn page with this code:
<div class="primary-action-button"><a class="primary-action label" href="/requestList?displayProposal=&destID=39959446&creationType=DC&authToken=Yr4_&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&trk=vsrp_people_res_pri_act&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2998448551382744275729%2CVSRPtargetId%3A39959446%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary">Send InMail</a></div>
Is there any way to click on an element just by its href link? Thanks
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We can click a link/button with its href link in Selenium webdriver. This can be achieved by multiple ways. We can use find_element_by_link_text() and find_element_by_partial_link_text() methods to perform this task.
We can click a button with Selenium webdriver in Python using the click method. First, we have to identify the button to be clicked with the help of any locators like id, name, class, xpath, tagname or css. Then we have to apply the click method on it. A button in html code is represented by button tagname.
We can click a link by href value with Selenium webdriver. To identify the link with the href attribute we can take the help of the locators xpath or css selector. We shall use the findElement method and pass By. xpath or By.
Using selenium you could use the following code:
driver.find_element_by_link_text("Send InMail").click()
The above answer driver.findElement(By.linkText("Send InMail")).click(); is in Java. In python, use find_element_by_link_text:
driver.find_element_by_link_text('Send InMail').click()
or something like this is sometimes helpful
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Send').click()
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