How to click a link in Selenium using Ruby?

Question

I have some links that are not buttons, each row of the table result has one link called View :

<a class="view-link" aria-label="View" href="/applicant_submissions/8">
                <i aria-hidden="true" title="View" class="glyphicon glyphicon-folder-open icon-spacing"></i>

Can you please show me how to use Selenium using Ruby to click on this link?

halfer · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-30 20:21:53Z

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Use this code:

driver.find_element(:class, "view-link").click

edited Jul 30, 2018 at 20:21

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akram Over a year ago

Thanks, is there anyway to click the first or second or any nth link ? Thanks,

Ratmir Asanov Over a year ago

@akram, if you have several links with the same class name -- you should use lists and find_elements-method. After that get the appropriate link by using the index in the list.

akram Over a year ago

did you mean : driver.find_element(:class, "view-link")[0].click

Ratmir Asanov Over a year ago

@akram, yes, but you should use find_elements-method for that.

akram Over a year ago

Thanks, it's working, I have another question, for the login script I am hard coding the username and password, is there any way to read them from a file instead ? Thanks.

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Ratmir Asanov · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-23 12:04:32Z

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I don't know Ruby so, please, find my solution in Python.

You can use these locators:

Using class name:

driver.find_element_by_class_name('view-link').click

Or

Using XPath:

 driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href="/applicant_submissions/8']").click

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answered Nov 7, 2017 at 6:58

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