how to get attribute value using selenium and css

Question

I have the following HTML code:

<a href="/search/?p=2&q=move&mt=1"> 2 </a>

I would like to get what is contained in href, ie, I was looking for a command which would give me "/search/?p=2&q=move&mt=1" value for href.

Could someone please help me with the respective command and css locator in selenium, for the above query?

if I have something like:

<a href="/search/?p=2&q=move&mt=1"> 2 </a> 
<a href="/search/?p=2&q=move&mt=2"> 3 </a>

Out of these two if I was to get the attribute value for href whose text conatins '2', then how would my css locator synatx look like?

BoltClock · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-26 07:55:14Z

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If your HTML consists solely of that one <a> tag, then this should do it:

String href = selenium.getAttribute("css=a@href");

You use the DefaultSelenium#getAttribute() method and pass in a CSS locator, an @ symbol, and the name of the attribute you want to fetch. In this case, you select the a and get its @href.

In response to your comment/edit:

The part after @ tells Selenium that that part is the name of the attribute.
You should place :contains('2') before @href because it's part of the locator, not the attribute. So, like this:
```
selenium.getAttribute("css=a:contains('2')@href");
```

edited Aug 26, 2011 at 7:55

answered Aug 26, 2011 at 7:34

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Sunny Over a year ago

thanks BoltClock, this was great help. I just have a couple of questions relatd to this: 1. What does @ mean? 2. if I have something like: <a href="/search/?p=2&q=move&mt=1"> 2 </a> <a href="/search/?p=2&q=move&mt=2"> 3 </a> Out of these two if I was to get the attribute value for href whose text conatins '2', then how would my css locator synatx look like? I tried selenium.getattribute("css=div#paginationContainer a@href:contains('2')") but this gives the following error: Could not find element attribute: css=div#paginationContainer a@href:contains('2') thanks in advanvce

Sunny Over a year ago

Thank you so much for that, it was very helpful, it worked. I have one more query in the same regard actually. Is there a way to check whether the attribute href is present in a particular HTML tag using css and selenium. So, for example, in the above case, if I want to check if the HTML tag which conatins text '2', contains href attribute or not? Is that possible and how? Thnaks a lot.

BoltClock Over a year ago

Try selenium.isElementPresent("css=a[href]:contains('2')")

Sunny Over a year ago

excellent, it all worked great. One last question. This will hopefully be the last. Learnt a lot today. OK, so i need to check if some text on the page is bold or not. How would i do that?

BoltClock Over a year ago

Not sure about that, sorry. (I know it's your last question.)

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Vinay · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 01:23:07Z

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Changing css=a@href to href should do the trick. Let me if this did not work.

    List<WebElement> ele = driver.findElements(By.className("c"));
        for(WebElement e : ele)
        {
           String doctorname = e.getText();
           String linkValue = e.getAttribute("href");
        }

answered Jul 24, 2013 at 1:23

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