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[Selenium] how do I assert that a hyperlink points to a given URL?

Answer 1

+2 A:

i guess get_attribute should help. you should get href from link, it is attribute.

Andrey 2010-05-27 13:36:01

Interesting. In my case though, I have multiple elements with the same text but want to avoid calling elments by xpath or dom.get_attribute does not return an array when given a locator that matches multiple elements. Instead it returns the first element.

arnthorsnaer 2010-05-27 16:15:16

@arnthorsnaer.mp use id attribute then, it should be unique. Or use xpath - i always use it, why not?

Andrey 2010-05-27 17:22:25

The links don't have ID's :)I will use xpath if I have to but making my test depend on view implementation specifics does make them more brittle.I'd vote you up but I lack reputation points.

arnthorsnaer 2010-05-27 17:45:29

@arnthorsnaer your tests are dependent on view implementation, because it is UI test. it is normal. why can't links have id btw? you can wrap it into div and assign id to div

Andrey 2010-05-27 17:56:21

@Andrey In this case I am writing acceptance tests, but I do not write the software (and have limited access to controlling the implementation). Hence I care more about the domain information being presented than the implementation specific details. Of course, if I cant solve this I'll use xpath :)

arnthorsnaer 2010-05-27 20:35:23

Answer 2

+1 A:

Given the following HTML:

<html>
   <body>
     <a id="myLink" href="http://www.example.com"&gt;Example Link</a>
   </body>
</html>

You could use the following Selenium commands (using Java/TestNG, and Selenium 1.x)

assertEquals(selenium.getText("id=myLink@href"), "Example Link");
assertEquals(selenium.getAttribute("id=myLink@href"), "http://www.example.com/");

Using Selenium 2.x the example would be:

WebElement myLink = driver.findElement(By.id("myLink"));
assertEquals(myLink.getText(), "Example Link");
assertEquals(myLink.getAttribute("href"), "http://www.example.com/");

Dave Hunt 2010-05-27 14:10:00

Good suggestion, but I was hoping to be able to select the element without specifying the ID (by link AND href due to multiple links with the same text).

arnthorsnaer 2010-05-27 15:59:52

You should probably have mentioned that in your question =) If you update the question (perhaps with a HTML snippet) I'd be happy to attempt a more suitable answer. :)

Dave Hunt 2010-05-27 16:39:13

Thanks for the tip Dave. I've updated the question.

arnthorsnaer 2010-05-27 17:14:18

Answer 3

+1 A:

You could use isElementPresent as follows:

assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("//a[text()='Example Link' and @href='http://www.example.com/']");

Dave Hunt 2010-05-28 08:56:52

I could and I shall. Well played! Thanks.

arnthorsnaer 2010-05-28 20:04:11

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