Having trouble clicking a link with selenium webdriver/java

Question

I'm trying to click the link below:

 <td id="mainleftlinkzoneover" class="mainleftlinks" width="151" title="Student Medicaid  Eligibility">

Here's the code. It works with other links like this but not this one.

        WebElement myElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 30))
              .until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("td[title='Student Medicaid  Eligibility']")));
        myElement.click();

Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

you can do it by using the below code:

By.id("mainleftlinkzoneover") //here only id is used

or

By.cssSelector("#mainleftlinkzoneover[title='Student Medicaid  Eligibility']") // this is another way to locate element

use the any one instead of your By.cssSelector.

Make sure there are no frame.

Answer 2

Is the link available for others to check? I mean can I test it if I want? you can give the url if possible.

here are my 2 cents:

I am thinking because of the spaces in your title, you might not be able to click on it. I would try using contains something like By.xpath("//td[contains(@title,'Eligibility')]") you can put either student or medicaid if they are unique. See if that helps.