Selenium: How to find element by partial href?

Question

Working code 1:

Driver.Instance.FindElement( By.XPath(\"//a[contains(@href,\'\" + PartialLinkHref + \"\')]\" ));

Working code 2:

Answer 1

The problem with your initial selector is that you're missing the // in front of the selector. the // tells XPath to search the whole html tree.

This should do the trick:

Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[contains(@href, 'long')]"))

If you want to find children of an element, use .// instead, e.g.

var element = Driver.Instance.FindElement("..some selector..")
var link = element.FindElement(".//a[contains(@href, 'long')]"))

If you want to find a link that contains text and not by the href attribute, you can use

Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[contains(text(), 'long')]"))