How to click a href link using Selenium

Question

I have a html href link

App Configuration

using Selenium I need

Answer 1

To click() on the element with text as App Configuration you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• linkText:

  driver.findElement(By.linkText("App Configuration")).click();
  

• cssSelector:

  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href='/docs/configuration']")).click();
  

• xpath:

  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/docs/configuration' and text()='App Configuration']")).click();
  

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Ideally, to click() on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• linkText:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("App Configuration"))).click();
  

• cssSelector:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("a[href='/docs/configuration']"))).click();
  

• xpath:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@href='/docs/configuration' and text()='App Configuration']"))).click();
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible while clicking a checkbox through SeleniumWebDriver and Java
• How to resolve org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException using Selenium with Java in Amazon Sign In