Finding webelement with xpath starting with

Question

I\'m trying to locate a link using Selenium Webdriver. I don\'t wanna locate it by link text, only the actual link which is typed in . This can be done by using Selenium\'s find

Answer 1

You can use the start-with in xpath to locate an attribute value that starts with a certain text.

For example, assume you have the following link on the page:

link text

Then you can use the following xpath to find links that have an href that starts with 'mylink':

//a[starts-with(@href, "mylink")]