clicking on a link with the same href value using selenium python

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I have a html code that has two links but both the links have the same href value, but the onclick and the text are different. I wasn't sure as to how to access the second link. I tried using driver.find_element_by_link_text('text'), but I get a no such element found error.

<div id="member">
    <"a href="#" onclick="add_member("abc"); return false;">run abc<"/a> 
    <br>
    <"a href="#" onclick="add_member("def"); return false;">run def<"/a>
</div>

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-10 20:05:48Z

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There are multiple options to get the desired link.

One option would be to get use find_element_by_xpath() and check onclick attribute value:

link = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@id="member"]/a[contains(@onclick, "add_member(\"def\")")]')
link.click()

Another one would be to simply find both links and get the desired one by index:

div = driver.find_element_by_id('member')
links = div.find_elements_by_tag_name('a')
links[1].click()

Which option to choose depends on the whole HTML content. Hope at least one of two suggested solutions solves the issue.

edited Sep 10, 2014 at 20:05

answered Sep 10, 2014 at 19:55

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3 Comments

esua Over a year ago

says that it's not a valid xpath

esua Over a year ago

if I use the second option, I get the "element not visible exception"

alecxe Over a year ago

@esua can you share the link to the web-site so that I can reproduce the problem? Thanks.

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