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How can I use Selenium to retrieve the text within the href attribute in a table data tag?

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answered 2022-03-04 05:00:00 +0000

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You can use the following steps to retrieve the text within the href attribute in a table data tag using Selenium:

  1. First, locate the table data tag using any of the locators like findelementbyxpath(), findelementbyid(), findelementby_name() etc.

  2. Once you have located the table data tag, use get_attribute('href') method to retrieve the href attribute value.

Here is the sample code to retrieve the href attribute value from a table data tag using Selenium in Python:

from selenium import webdriver

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# navigate to the web page
driver.get('https://www.example.com')

# locate the table data tag with href attribute
table_data = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//td/a')

# retrieve the href attribute value
href_value = table_data.get_attribute('href')

# print the href attribute value
print('href attribute value:', href_value)

# close the browser window
driver.quit()

In this example, we have located the first anchor tag in the table data tag using the XPath expression "//td/a". Then we have retrieved the href attribute value using the get_attribute() method and printed it.

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