How to click a href link using Selenium

Question

I have a html href link

App Configuration

using Selenium I need

Answer 1

Thi is your code :

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

You missed the Quotation mark

it should be as below

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

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

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

The above line works fine. Please remove the space after href.

Is that element is visible in the page, if the element is not visible please scroll down the page then perform click action.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Seems like the a tag is hidden. Remember Selenium is not able to interact with hidden element. Javascript is the only option in that case.

By css = By.cssSelector("a[href='/docs/configuration']");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(css);
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();" , element);