Xpath for href element

Question

I need to click on the below href element,which is present among similar href elements.

<a id="oldcontent" href="listDetails.do?camp=1865"><u>Re-Call</u></a>

Can anyone provide me xpath to click the above href link?

Killebrew

selenium.click("xpath=//a[@href=\"listDetails.do?camp=1865\"]"); does not work – Killebrew

selenium.click("xpath=//a[@href='listDetails.do?camp=1865']"); does not work – Killebrew

Answer 1

Try below locator.

selenium.click("css=a[href*='listDetails.do'][id='oldcontent']");

or

selenium.click("xpath=//a[contains(@href,'listDetails.do') and @id='oldcontent']");

Fishy

Answer 2

This works properly try this code-

selenium.click("xpath=//a[contains(@href,'listDetails.do') and @id='oldcontent']");

Lilley

Answer 3

This will get you the generic link:

selenium.FindElement(By.XPath("xpath=//a[contains(@href,'listDetails.do')")).Click();

If you want to have it specify a parameter then you will have to test for each one:

...
int i = 1;

selenium.FindElement(By.XPath("xpath=//a[contains(@href,'listDetails.do?camp=" + i.ToString() + "')")).Click();
...

The above could utilize a for loop which navigates to and from each camp numbers' page, which could verify a static list of camps.

Please excuse if the code is not perfect, I have not tested myself.

Thomsen

Answer 4

what worked for me:

//a[contains(@href,'logout')]

Drawbridge

Answer 5

have you tried:

//a[@id='oldcontent']/u[text()='Re-Call']

Sinusoid

Answer 6

for me worked //a[text()='Re-Call']

Maines

Answer 7

Below works fine.

//a[@id='oldcontent']

If you've tried certain ones and they haven't worked, then let us know, otherwise something simple like this should work.

Brace

There are multiple tags with same id,so am not using that.i want to pick it up using href value itself – Killebrew

selenium.click("css=a[href='listDetails.do?camp=236767']"); also does not work :-( – Killebrew

OK, what about //a[@href='listDetails.do?camp=1865'], note that it looks like the integer at the end is a unique ID, so you will need to cater for this. Do you get the element returned if you do a blanket contains search? //a[contains(@href, 'listDetails.do')] – Brace

Yes i need to pick up based on the unique id at the end of the listDetails.do?camp=1865,since all hrefs have sommon string listDetails.do?camp..Only integer differs – Killebrew

selenium.click("xpath=//a[@href='listDetails.do?camp=1865']"); does not work..Can anyone suggest solution – Killebrew

What browser do you use? Works fine using Chrome v22. Does it find the element at all or just not click on it? – Brace

Am using IE8.may be its not finding the element – Killebrew

Have you set up IE8 according to: code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver (the 'Required Configuration' section) – Brace

FYI if there are multiple elements with the same ID then you have a bigger issue as you have invalid elements. If you have any JavaScript code on the page calling document.getElementById(id); you will get inconsistent results depending on the browser/version. I would HIGHLY recommend fixing the invalid DOM first. – Stoner

Answer 8

Best way to locate anchor elements is to use link=Re-Call:

selenium.click("link=Re-Call");

It will work..

Distaff