Getting error when i try to click on the link text using Selenium Python

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It is a href I am trying to click on this using the below code however, it is not able to find link text. It has no frames and it is on the same window. Not sure what is going on

self.driver.find_element_by_link_text("UNITED WAY OF EASTERN UTAH").click()

This is the screenshot of the element code:

Giannis Spiliopoulos · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-16 19:46:55Z

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Wild guess here, but has the page fully loaded (including any content created by dynamic code e.g. javascript) before you try to click on the link. If the link is created after you try to find it then obviously it will be missing. Try putting a time.sleep before you try to find it.

Took a closer look to the screenshot and this should help. You are using find_element_by_link_text which if I am not mistaken looks for a complete match between the provided text and the text in the link. However the text in your link is not an exact match. You should use find_element_by_partial_link_text instead

edited Mar 16, 2017 at 19:46

answered Mar 16, 2017 at 19:42

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Giannis Spiliopoulos Over a year ago

Updated the answer

user7242550 Over a year ago

ahh not sure why i did not think about that. it seems to work now. thank you so much

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