How to click a link using Selenium?

Click a Link in Selenium

To click on a specific link in the webpage using Selenium in Python, get the link element, and then call the click() method on the link element object.

linkElement.click()

click() method scrolls to the element, and performs a click action at the center of the element.

Examples

In the following examples, we shall consider loading the HTML file at path https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-31.html . The contents of this HTML file is given below.

<html>
 <body>
  <p>Hello World!</p>
  <a id="about_link" href="/tmp/selenium/index-31-about.html">About Hello World</a>
  <br>
  <p>New Article</p>
  <a id="new_article" href="/tmp/selenium/index-31-new-article.html">About New Article</a>
 </body>
</html>
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In the following program, we will find the link element whose id is "about_link", and click on that link element using Element.click() method.

Python Program (Selenium)

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-31.html')

# Find element by id
myLink = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'about_link')

# Optional
time.sleep(3)

# Click on link
myLink.click()

# Optional
time.sleep(3)

# Close the browser
driver.quit()

In the following program, we will find the link element whose link text contains "New Article", and click on that link element using Element.click() method.

Python Program (Selenium)

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-31.html')

# Find element by id
myLink = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, 'New Article')

# Optional
time.sleep(3)

# Click on link
myLink.click()

# Optional
time.sleep(3)

# Close the browser
driver.quit()

Summary

In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to click on an HTML link element in webpage, using Element.click() method in Selenium.

Quiz on Selenium

Q1. Which of the following is not a popular web driver used in Selenium Python?

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Q2. What is the method used to navigate back to the previous page in Selenium Python?

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Q3. Which of the following is not a commonly used web element locator in Selenium Python?

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Q4. What is the method used to select a value from a drop-down list in Selenium Python?

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Q5. What is the method used to clear the text from an input field in Selenium Python?

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