selenium-simple-test

How to do click_element/click_link when I don't have an id

Asked by Ovidiu Donciu on 2012-07-20

I'm trying to click on a text link that is on a page. It is like a menu link.
The HTML code for it:
<li><a href="http://maps.skobbler.com/">Maps</a><span class="beta-tag">beta<span></span></span></li>

What I'm currently doing is using click_element and click_link but can't make it to work because it can't find the element.

Any suggestion?

thanks

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2012-07-23
Kate Mueller (kmueller) said : #1

Whenever you don't have the ID for an element, use a get_element to find it. For example, here you'd use click_element or click_link with a nested get_element in it:

click_element(get_element(tag='a', href='http://maps.skobbler.com', text='Maps'))

~K

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