How to click a href link using Selenium

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I have a html href link  lt a href  quot  docs configuration quot  gt App Configuration lt  a gt   using Selenium I need to click the link  Currently  I am using below code - Driver findElement By xpath  quot   a text    App Configuration   quot    click      But it s not redirecting to the page  I also tried below code - Driver findElement By xpath   a  href    docs configuration   quot    click     But this is throwing below exception - org openqa selenium ElementNotVisibleException  Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout  13 milliseconds  The link is visible and page is completely loaded  I don t know what s wrong with my code

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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     For detailed answer  View this post

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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You can use xpath as follows  try this one    driver findElement By xpath        href   docs configuration       click

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To click   on the element with text as App Configuration you can use either of the following Locator Strategies   linkText  driver findElement By linkText  quot App Configuration quot    click      cssSelector  driver findElement By cssSelector  quot a href   docs configuration   quot    click      xpath  driver findElement By xpath  quot   a  href   docs configuration  and text    App Configuration   quot    click        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  quot App Configuration quot     click      cssSelector  new WebDriverWait driver  20  until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By cssSelector  quot a href   docs configuration   quot     click      xpath  new WebDriverWait driver  20  until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By xpath  quot   a  href   docs configuration  and text    App Configuration   quot     click        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

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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 amp ogbl      getAttribute  href    System out println gmaillink   driver get gmaillink

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