excel vba - Selenium Find Element

Question

I'm using Selenium to do some webscraping.

I always struggle with finding elements when Name or ID isn't an options.

The page is https://www.portfolio123.com/holdings.jsp?portid=1637063

And I'm trying to find the log in button. the element looks like:

I've tried

FindElementByClass("btn-primary btn-sm", 10000)

FindElementsByLinkText("Log In", 10000)

FindElementByXPath("//div[@class='btn btn-primary btn-sm']//[@href='javascript:void(goToLoginPage())")

But without any success (I suspect I need to use XPath, but I can't seem to get it right

Any help please? (and if you could explain how to figure this out, so I don't have the issues in future that would be really appreciated)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65857914/excel-vba-selenium-find-element

Answer 1

To locate the element Log In you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using FindElementByLinkText:

  FindElementByLinkText("Log In")
  

• Using FindElementByCss:

  FindElementByCss("a[href*='goToLoginPage']")
  

• Using FindElementByXPath:

  FindElementByXPath("//a[contains(@href, 'goToLoginPage')]")