How to click a href link using Selenium

Question

I have a html href link

<a href="/docs/configuration">App Configuration</a>

using Selenium I need to click the link. Currently, I am using below code -

Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='App Configuration']")).click(); 

But it's not redirecting to the page. I also tried below code -

Driver.findElement(By.xpath(//a[@href ='/docs/configuration']")).click();

But this is throwing below exception -

org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
Command duration or timeout: 13 milliseconds

The link is visible and page is completely loaded. I don't know what's wrong with my code.

Solution 1

 webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/docs/configuration']")).click();

The above line works fine. Please remove the space after href.

Is that element is visible in the page, if the element is not visible please scroll down the page then perform click action.

Solution 2

Use

driver.findElement(By.linkText("App Configuration")).click()

Other Approaches will be

JavascriptLibrary jsLib = new JavascriptLibrary(); 
jsLib.callEmbeddedSelenium(selenium, "triggerMouseEventAt", elementToClick,"click", "0,0");

or

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", elementToClick);

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Solution 3

Thi is your code :

Driver.findElement(By.xpath(//a[@href ='/docs/configuration']")).click();

You missed the Quotation mark

it should be as below

Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/docs/configuration']")).click();

Hope this helps!

Solution 4

Use an explicit wait for the element like this:

WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver, 500);
wait1.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("path of element"))).click();

Solution 5

Seems like the a tag is hidden. Remember Selenium is not able to interact with hidden element. Javascript is the only option in that case.

By css = By.cssSelector("a[href='/docs/configuration']");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(css);
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();" , element);

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Comments

[Psl]

getting cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: arguments[0] is undefined

[Saifur]

Try ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("document.querySe‌​lector(\"a[href='/do‌​cs/configuration']\"‌​).click();"); instead of the 3 lines in the answer

[Psl]

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: document.querySelector(...) is null

[Saifur]

Seems like wait issue to me. Add some explicit wait and try

[ikreb]

You forgot a bracket.

[scavenger]

doesn't work for pages with language based on user IP