How to get the exact text of href attribute of tag a?

Question

I am using selenium to get href attribute, lLinks are my web element that has a "href" attribute.

String url = lLinks.getAttrbute("href");

If the href of my 'a' tag is a relative path like <a href='/home'>Home</a> , the url will return http://www.domain.com/home.

How do I get the url to just equal to the exact text of the href attribute?

Answer 1

I think you cannot get that "href". Selenium only provides a full path or a relative path. See code below:

String href = linx.getAttribute("href");
System.out.println("Text is" + href);
String pathName = linx.getAttribute("pathname");
System.out.println("Text is" + pathName);
// Results
// Text is http://www.amazon.com/gp/yourstore/home/ref=nav_cs_ys/180-1519742-0316250
// Text is /gp/yourstore/home/ref=nav_cs_ys/180-1519742-0316250

Answer 2

You can obtain href attribute by reading the whole element:

lLinks.getAttribute("outerHTML")

Which gives you e.g.:

<a id="button-id" href="#">Click me!</a>

Then you can use pattern matching to get the href attribute.