how to get an attribute value from a href link in selenium

Question

i am trying to get the link from \"a href\" attribute

Answer 1

You need to call GetAttribute() with actual attribute name. Replace:

lists1[0].GetAttribute("a href");

with:

lists1[0].GetAttribute("href");

Answer 2

In C#, for anchor tags

string url = lists1[0].Url();

will yield the same result as

string url = ists1[0].GetAttribute("href");

NOTE: Both returns complete Url even if the href has relative path in anchor tag.

For <a href="/profile/my-profile-id" /> 

element.Url();
// returns http://mywebsite.com/profile/my-profile-id

element.GetAttribute("href"); 
// returns http://mywebsite.com/profile/my-profile-id

Answer 3

C#

element.GetAttribute("attribute name");

Ruby

element.attribute("attribute name")

Python

element.get_attribute("attribute name")

Java

element.getAttribute("attribute name")