Selenium / python-无法找到部分链接文本

Question

Selenium with Python 2.7 on Windows 10 running the Chrome driver (as a script and from the python REPL) fails to find an element by partial link text, and I'm not sure why. When I look at the source code of the webpage in question, there is only one instance of WO20 in the entire page, and it's in a link, but selenium returns no such element .

Here's an example (the WO20 comes just after the href ):

<a id="resultTable:0:resultListTableColumnLink" name="resultTable:0:resultListTableColumnLink" href="detail.jsf?docId=WO2015102036&amp;recNum=1&amp;office=&amp;queryString=FP%3A%28JP2014005719%29&amp;prevFilter=&amp;sortOption=Pub+Date+Desc&amp;maxRec=3" target="_self"><span class="notranslate"> WO/2015/102036</span></a>

The page has a few other links, but the one I need is the only one with the character combination WO20 , so in theory this should be easy to identify. My guess is that selenium isn't recognizing this as a link, which is why partial_link_text isn't working. I've tried using xpath (successfully), but the problem is that that returns the n-th link in the table, and the links I need (I'm processing multiple documents) aren't in a fixed position.

Answer 1

Actually, there is no link text that contain WO20 ! I think you confuse link text with href attribute of <a> element. You can find target element by link text/partial link text with following code:

driver.find_element_by_link_text('WO/2015/102036')

or

driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('WO/20')

this XPaths should be applicable also:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(@href, "WO20")]')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(text(), "WO/20")]')