Question

I am using Selenium IDE and Selenium RC to check links on a website, but I am having trouble finding a way to assert that a link points to a specified url and has the specified text.

Constraints:

• locating the element by dom or xpath is not feasible for it will make the test brittle
• there are multiple link elements with identical link text

The HTML:

<a href="path_x">link text</a>
<a href="path_y">link text</a>

The test I’d like to do (rspec):

page.is_element_present?("Href=path_y, Link=link text").should be_true
#locator parameters are in order of preference

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You could use isElementPresent as follows:

assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("//a[text()='Example Link' and @href='http://www.example.com/']");