Find Links using By Partial Link Text in Selenium

Overview

Partial link text helps to locate element with hyperlink texts which matches partially. If we specify a partial link text that has multiple matches, only the first match will be accessed. We can use this if we are not sure about the exact full link text.

<a href=”Navigation URL” id=”linkId”>Testing Docs</a>

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText(“Testing”));

Note that if there are multiple matches then Webdriver will return only the first match if we use the findElement() method.

Example

In the earlier example, we have used the full text of the link to identify the link with By.linkText() method.

https://www.testingdocs.com/find-link-using-by-linktext-in-selenium/

However, in this example we will use partial text to identify the element using the By.partialLinkText() method.

Sample Code

package com.testingdocs.tests;

//Selenium Tutorials - www.TestingDocs.com

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class PartialLinkTextExample {
 public WebDriver driver;


 @BeforeClass
 public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException {
 DesiredCapabilities dCaps = new DesiredCapabilities();
 dCaps.setBrowserName("chrome");
 driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new 
URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), dCaps);
 }

 @Test
 public void testLinkLocator() throws InterruptedException {
 driver.navigate()
.to("http://localhost/testlink/login.php");
 driver.manage().window().maximize();
 try {
 driver
.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Lost")).click();
 driver.manage()
.timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 Assert
.assertTrue(driver.getCurrentUrl().contains("lostPassword"));
 } catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }
 }

 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown() {
 if (driver != null) {
 driver.quit();
 }
 }
}

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