How to click a link whose href has a substring using Selenium webdriver

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The following is a bunch of links <a >element. Only one of them has a substring "long" as a value for the attribute href.

<a class="g1" href= "very_lpng string" > name1 </a>
<a class="g2" href= "verylong string" > name2 </a>   // I need this one
<a class="g3" href= "very ling string" > name3 </a>
<a class="g4" href= "very ng string" > name4 </a>

I need to click the link whose href has substring "long" in it. How can I do this?

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("long")).click(); // because it chooses by the name

Jul 11, 2018 in Selenium by QueenBee
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It can be done by using the CSS selectors.​

The code would be:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href*='long']")).click();

Hope it helps!!

answered Jul 11, 2018 by Meci Matt
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You're welcome. Glad it worked for you. Please feel free to ask any other questions if you have.

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