find_element_by_partial_link_text() driver method – Selenium Python
Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out – Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as geeksforgeeks, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task.
This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_element_by_partial_link_text() is discussed in this article. With this strategy, the first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned. If no element has a matching link text attribute, a NoSuchElementException will be raised.
Syntax –
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Text of Link")Example –
For instance, consider this page source:
HTML
<html> <body> <p>Are you sure you want to do this?</p> <a href="continue.html">Continue</a> <a href="cancel.html">Cancel</a></body><html> |
Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using –
login_form = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Conti')How to use driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text() method in Selenium?
Let’s try to practically implement this method and get a element instance for “https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/”. Let’s try to grab First navbar link using its partial link text “Tuto”.
Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_element_by_partial_link_text method –
Python3
# Python program to demonstrate# selenium# import webdriverfrom selenium import webdriver# create webdriver objectdriver = webdriver.Firefox()# enter keyword to searchkeyword = "geeksforgeeks"# get geeksforgeeks.org# get elementelement = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Tuto")# print complete elementprint(element) |
Now run using –
Python run.py
First, it will open firefox window with geeksforgeeks, and then select the element and print it on terminal as shown below.
Browser Output –
Terminal Output –
More locators for locating single elements
| Locators | Description |
|---|---|
| find_element_by_id | The first element with the id attribute value matching the location will be returned. |
| find_element_by_name | The first element with the name attribute value matching the location will be returned. |
| find_element_by_xpath | The first element with the xpath syntax matching the location will be returned. |
| find_element_by_link_text | The first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned. |
| find_element_by_partial_link_text | The first element with the partial link text value matching the location will be returned. |
| find_element_by_tag_name | The first element with the given tag name will be returned. |
| find_element_by_class_name | the first element with the matching class attribute name will be returned. |
| find_element_by_css_selector | The first element with the matching CSS selector will be returned. |
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