Question

I have the following HTML code :

<table class="report" width="100%">
<thead>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="alt">
<td>
<a onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" href="/search/searches/1563/reports/946">56175-746-45619568-noor.fli.zip</a>
</td>
<td class="_"> Report </td>
<td class="_"> 09 Apr 2012</td>
<td class="_"> Noor</td>
<td class="_"> 2.8 MB</td>
<td class="_">Ready</td>
</tr>

I want to click on href="/search/searches/1563/reports/946">56175-746-45619568-noor.fli.zip but I do not want to use XPATH. I tried a lot of things but failed, is there a way to click on this href without using XPATH. Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

You can use the href

br.link(:href => '/search/searches/1563/reports/946').click

or the text

br.link(:text => '56175-746-45619568-noor.fli.zip').click

or you can use variations with regex matches

br.link(:href => /reports/).click

or

br.link(:text => /noor.fli.zip/).click