How to click a link whose href has a certain substring in Selenium?

Question

The following are a bunch of links <a elements. ONLY one of them has a substring "long" as a value for the attribute href

<a class="c1" href= "very_lpng string" > name1 </a>

<a class="g2" href= "verylong string" > name2 </a>   // The one that I need

<a class="g4" href= "very ling string" > name3 </a>

<a class="g5g" href= "very ng string" > name4 </a>

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I need to click the link who href has substring "long" in it. How can I do this?

PS: driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("long")).click(); // b/c it chooses by the name

Answer 1

It can be done by using CSS selectors.​

The code would be:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href*='long']")).click();

Hope this helps!