Selenium get element from menu without ID

Question

I am working with Selenium Web driver and need to reference am item in a javascript menu that has no id. I need to know how I can get the following web element in Selenium. I am not very proficient with javascript or HTML so any help is needed.

<td class="menu" colspan="2">
    <a href="javascript:Redirect('marks',0);" class="menu">
        Display Text Here
    </a>
</td>

Answer 1

You can locate this element by xPath:

//a[contains(., 'Display Text Here')]

so in JavaScript it will be like this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(., 'Display Text Here')]")).click();

Here you will find more information.

Answer 2

To get the element with text as Display Text Here you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• LinkText:

  "Display Text Here"
  

• CssSelector:

  "td.menu>a.menu"
  

• XPath:

  "//td[@class='menu']/a[@class='menu'][contains(.,'Display Text Here')]"
  

Answer 3

You can use this linkText :

Note that you should always choose linkText when compared to xpath and cssSelector.

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Display Text Here")).click();