How to find_element_by_link_text while having: NoSuchElement Exception?

Question

This question has been asked over and over again - and in-spite of trying all the hacks I still can\'t seem to figure out what\'s wrong.

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Answer 1

From viewing the source of the page that you provided a link to, it seems you are using an incorrect selector.

You should use instead find_elements_by_link_text(u'text here')[0] to select the first occurrence instead as there seems to be the potential for multiple links with the same link text.

So instead of:

self.assertEqual("Thinkpad Edge E530 (Black)", driver.find_element_by_link_text("Thinkpad Edge E530 (Black)").text)

You should use:

self.assertEqual("Thinkpad Edge E530 (Black)", driver.find_elements_by_link_text("Thinkpad Edge E530 (Black)")[0].text)