Selenium WebDriver can t find element by link text

Question

I m trying to select an element that includes an anchor  but the text is buried in a paragraph inside of a div   Here s the HTML I m working with    lt a class  item  ng-href    catalog 90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f category DATABASE SERVERS service 90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026  href    catalog 90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f category DATABASE SERVERS service 90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026  gt   lt div class  col-lg-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-4 item-list-image  gt   lt img ng-src  csa images library Service Design png  src  csa images library Service Design png  gt   lt  div gt   lt div class  col-lg-8 col-sm-9 col-xs-8  gt   lt div class  col-xs-12  gt       lt p gt       lt strong class  ng-binding  gt Smoke Sequential lt  strong gt       lt  p gt    The code I m using to try to snag it is targeting the  Smoke Sequential  text with   driver findElement By linkText service   click      Where the variable  service  holds  Smoke Sequential  in it   When I run it  I get the following error   org openqa selenium NoSuchElementException  Unable to locate element    method   link text   selector   Smoke Sequential     Any help would be greatly appreciated

User · Accepted Answer

The problem might be in the rest of the html, the part that you didn't post.

With this example (I just closed the open tags):

<a class="item" ng-href="#/catalog/90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f/category/DATABASE_SERVERS/service/90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026" href="#/catalog/90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f/category/DATABASE_SERVERS/service/90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026">
<div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-4 item-list-image">
<img ng-src="csa/images/library/Service_Design.png" src="csa/images/library/Service_Design.png">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-8 col-sm-9 col-xs-8">
<div class="col-xs-12">
    <p>
    <strong class="ng-binding">Smoke Sequential</strong>
    </p>
    </div>
</div>
</a>

I was able to find the element without trouble with:

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Smoke Sequential")).click();

If there is more text inside the element, you could try a find by partial link text:

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Sequential")).click();

User · Answer

find elements by xpath       class  class name       is a great solution

User · Answer

Use xpath and text    driver findElement By Xpath    strong contains text        service

User · Answer

A CSS selector approach could definitely work here  Try   driver findElement By CssSelector  a item    Click      This will not work if there are other anchors before this one of the class item  You can better specify the exact element if you do something like   my table   a item  where my table is the id of a table that the anchor is a child of

User · Answer

This doesn t seem to have   lt a gt   lt  a gt  tags   so selenium might not be able to detect it as a link   You may try and use  driver findElement By xpath       class  ng-binding      click      if this is the only element in that page with this class

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