How to click a href link using Selenium

Question

I have a html href link

App Configuration

using Selenium I need

Answer 1

How to click on link without using click method in selenum?

This is a tricky question. Follow the below steps:

driver.get("https://www.google.com");
String gmaillink= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm&ogbl']")).getAttribute("href");
System.out.println(gmaillink);
driver.get(gmaillink);

Answer 2

You can use xpath as follows, try this one :

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

Answer 3

Use an explicit wait for the element like this:

WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver, 500);
wait1.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("path of element"))).click();

Answer 4

Use

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

Other Approaches will be

JavascriptLibrary jsLib = new JavascriptLibrary(); 
jsLib.callEmbeddedSelenium(selenium, "triggerMouseEventAt", elementToClick,"click", "0,0");

or

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", elementToClick);

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Answer 5

Try to use Action class to reach the element

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.MoveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='AppConfiguration']")));
action.Perform();

Answer 6

You can use this method:

For the links if you use linkText(); it is more effective than the any other locator.

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