Access webelement in Selenium webdriver

Question

Have to inspect element 8. When click the element 8 on webpage.It should redirects to next page

<td class="text_overflow-1">
<u>
<a targrt="_parent();" href="subscriberall.php?key=138">8</a>
</u>
</td>

I have tried the following locators

  //a[@href="subscriberall.php?key=138"]
  driver.findElement(By.linkText("8")).click();

When run the above code in selenium webdriver. What actually happened means, it inspects element 8. But it doesnot clickable to next page

Answer 1

NOTE: You should ask your developers to put in a unique id in the page element so that it will be reusable. The attributes you have now will not suffice.

Usually an element is not clickable if you don't associate your page object to the a tag. So, when your developer adds a unique id into the a tag (let's say id = unique) then this should work.

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("u a[id='unique']")).click();

Answer 2

//a[@href="subscriberall.php?key=138"]
driver.findElement(By.linkText("8")).click();

There could be a variety of reasons why the above locators do not work. I also noticed a typo in

<a targrt="_parent();"...

It would be very advantageous to check your error log from the IDE/Terminal and copy/paste them so we can get a better idea of what specific issue you are having with the locators. If the element cannot be found that could mean the xpath query you wrote above has a dynamic key=XXX which is very brittle. In this case you may want to change it to

//u/a[contains(@href, 'subscriberall.php?key=')]

Answer 3

You can try following xpath

//div[@class='text_overflow-1']/u/a

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='text_overflow-1']/u/a")).click();