How to find Elements by Partial Link Text using Selenium?
Find Elements by Partial Link Text
To find link elements (hyperlinks) by partial link text, using Selenium in Python, call find_elements() method, pass By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT as the first argument, and the partial link text value as the second argument.
find_elements(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "partial_link_text_value")find_elements() method returns all the HTML Elements, that match the given partial link text, as a list.
If there are no elements by given partial link text, find_elements() function returns an empty list.
For an example to link text, in the following code snippet, About can be the partial link text, or 'article', or 'this article' could be partial link text.
<a href="/about/">About this article</a>Example
Consider the following HTML document.
index.html
<html>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<div name="xyz">
<p>>Article 1</p>
<a href="/tmp/article-1/">Read More</a>
</div>
<div name="xyz">
<p>>Article 2</p>
<a href="/tmp/article-2/">Read More</a>
</div>
<div>
<p>About</p>
<a href="/tmp/about/">Read about our company</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>In the following Python program, we find all the HTML link elements with the partial link text 'More'.
Python Program (Selenium)
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
# Navigate to the url
driver.get('/tmp/selenium/index-57.html')
# Find elements whose Partial Link Text = "More"
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, 'More')
for element in my_elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
# Close the driver
driver.quit()Output
<a href="/tmp/article-1/">Read More</a>
<a href="/tmp/article-2/">Read More</a>Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the elements that have a given partial link text, in the webpage, using Selenium.