Unable to click on link using Link text/Partial Link text using ruby

Question

I am new here and even to Ruby and Selenium. I am trying to click a link on web page which has following code:

<a> target="mainFrame" href="dynamic_Utility_Index.htm">Dynamic Utilities</a>

So basically I want to click on this dynamic utilities. The script which I have written so far is:

    require 'selenium-webdriver'
    require 'win32ole'

    driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for:firefox
    driver.manage().window().maximize();

    driver.navigate.to 'xyz.com'

    wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout =>10) # seconds

    #Click on Dynamic Utilities
    wait.until{driver.find_element(:link_text,'dynamic_Utility_Index.htm').click}
    puts "Clicked"

I have even used link, partial_link_text in place of link_text but keep getting the following error

(Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"dynamic"}) (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::TimeOutError)

I am using Ruby and Selenium Web driver.

Can you check if this link is located inside an iframe? Thanks. — alecxe
– alecxe, Commented Apr 27, 2016 at 14:04

Juan Castelli · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-27 19:29:12Z

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Did you try with:

wait.until{driver.find_element(:link_text,'DYNAMIC UTLITIES').click}

?? Sometimes I had to use the text link by capitalized.

Another option could be:

driver.find_element(:xpath, "//a[contains(@target, 'mainFrame')]").click

Hope works for you :D

answered Apr 27, 2016 at 19:29

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Jimit Shah Over a year ago

Tried both, still getting same error..btw thanks for the help

Juan Castelli Over a year ago

@JimitShah: Maybe... as a "debug" mode.... you could do this: puts driver.find_elements(:link_text,'DYNAMIC UTLITIES').length or puts driver.find_elements(:xpath, "//a[contains(@target, 'mainFrame')]").length to see if at least we are able to reach the element. If this give us at least 1 element we can start "playing" with click or text methods.

Jimit Shah Over a year ago

I tried both in my code. Its prints 0 in both the case.

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-27 13:49:16Z

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The item you consider to be a link text (dynamic_Utility_Index.htm) actually just a value of href attribute. Actual link text is "Dynamic Utilities". Also you can use xpath locator //a[@href="dynamic_Utility_Index.htm"] instead of search by link text:

wait.until{driver.find_element(:xpath,'//a[@href="dynamic_Utility_Index.htm"]').click}

edited Apr 27, 2016 at 13:49

answered Apr 27, 2016 at 13:44

Andersson

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Jimit Shah Over a year ago

So you mean like this wait.until{driver.find_element(:xpath,'/html/body/table/tbody/tr[11]/td[2]/a[@href="dynamic_Utility_Index.htm"]').click} wait.until{driver.find_element(:xpath,'/]/a[@href="dynamic_Utility_Index.htm"]').click} Tried both..same error..Unable to locate element

Andersson Over a year ago

Does wait.until{driver.find_element(:link_text,"Dynamic Utilities").click} works?

Jimit Shah Over a year ago

So i even used wait.until{driver.find_element(:xpath,'//a[@href="dynamic_Utility_Index.htm"]').click}

Jimit Shah Over a year ago

No It doesn't works, that what i am stuck with..its pretty simple..but i am not able to crack it

Andersson Over a year ago

Are you sure that you provided correct HTML for target element? It looks like <a>...>...</a>, but should looks like <a...>...</a>. Maybe you remove something in provided HTML code sample

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