How to click a link whose href has a certain substring in Selenium

Question

The following is a bunch of links  lt a elements  ONLY one of them has a substring  long  as a value for the attribute href   lt a class  c1  href   very lpng string   gt  name1  lt  a gt   lt a class  g2  href   verylong string   gt  name2  lt  a gt       The one that I need  lt a class  g4  href   very ling string   gt  name3  lt  a gt   lt a class  g5g  href   very ng string   gt  name4  lt  a gt                         I need to click the link whose href has substring  long  in it  How can I do this   PS  driver findElement By partialLinkText  long    click       b c it chooses by the name

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use driver findElement By partialLinkText  long    click

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I need to click the link who s href has substring  long  in it  How can I do this    With the beauty of CSS selectors   your statement would be     driver findElement By cssSelector  a href   long      click      This means  in english      Find me any  a  elements  that have the href attribute  and that attribute contains  long    You can find a useful article about formulating your own selectors for automation effectively  as well as a list of all the other equality operators  contains  starts with  etc    You can find that at  http   ddavison io css 2014 02 18 effective-css-selectors html

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With the help of xpath locator also  you can achieve the same   Your statement would be   driver findElement By xpath     a contains  href  long       click      And for clicking all the links contains long in the URL  you can use -   List lt WebElement gt  linksList   driver findElements By xpath     a contains  href  long         for  WebElement webElement   linksList            webElement click

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You can do this     first get all the  lt a gt  elements List lt WebElement gt  linkList driver findElements By tagName  a        now traverse over the list and check for int i 0   i lt linkList size     i          if linkList get i  getAttribute  href   contains  long                  linkList get i  click            break            in this what we r doing is first we are finding all the  lt a gt  tags and storing them in a list After that we are iterating the list one by one to find  lt a gt  tag whose href attribute contains long string  And then we click on that particular  lt a gt  tag and comes out of the loop

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