Codeception - click simple link

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How can I click on a simple link <a href="/some_page.html">Some page</a> via Codeception AcceptanceTester man?

class_name: AcceptanceTester
modules:
    enabled:
      - WebDriver
      - \Helper\Acceptance
    config:
      WebDriver:
          url: 'http://mysite.local'
          browser: 'firefox'
          windowSize: '1024x768'

I'm trying:

public function somePage(AcceptanceTester $I)
{
    $I->amOnPage('/');
    $I->click('Some page', '//a[href="/some_page.html"]');
}

but getting next message:

...
CSS or XPath element with '//a[href="/some_page.html"]' was not found.
...

ermacmkx · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-23 06:28:23Z

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You are using wrong xpath, it should be:

$I->click('Some page','//a[@href="/some_page.html"]');

So you are missing @ in front of href.

Just to mention if you have more links of this kind than you could access first one with this:

$I->click('Some page','(//a[@href="/some_page.html"])[1]');

answered Aug 23, 2017 at 6:28

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user7726151 · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 07:53:06Z

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Is this HTML structure:

<section id="products-anchor" class="products-list">
    <div class="container">
        <ul class="products">
            ***
            <li class="">
                <h3>
                    <a href="/some_page.html"> Some page </a>
                </h3>
                <p>
                    <a href="/some_page.html"></a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <a href="/some_page.html">Text for some page...</a>
                </p>
                <p></p>
            </li>
            ***
        </ul>
    </div>
</section>

answered Mar 20, 2017 at 7:53

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Krupa Nanda · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-19 11:49:26Z

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You can simply user Locator class here. Please check below snippet. I have used the same but using functional call. Consider that I am passing that element contains URL from my cept file.

use \Codeception\Util\Locator; Class ClassName{

public function fun_name( $strSomeVar, $selectorUrl ){
    $I->see( $strSomeVar, Locator::href( $selectorUrl ) );
    $I->click( Locator::href( $selectorUrl ) );

}
}

May be this will be helpful to you.

answered Apr 19, 2017 at 11:49

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Adriaan · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-08 10:28:34Z

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I'm not sure if you have to indicate the h3, but I'm pretty sure this will work.

$I->click(['xpath'=> '//ul/li/h3/a[@href="/some_page.html"]']);

edited Apr 8, 2022 at 10:28

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answered Nov 3, 2017 at 6:43

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