Find element by partial link text in Selenium Python - Practice Problems & Coding Challenges

Challenge - 5 Problems

❓ locator

intermediate

Locate element using partial link text

You want to find a link on a webpage that contains the text "Learn" anywhere in its visible text. Which Selenium locator will correctly find this element?

A driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Learn")

B driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Learn")

C driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "learn")

D driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[href*='Learn']")

💡 Hint

Partial link text matches part of the visible text, case sensitive.

Option B uses By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT with the exact substring "Learn" which matches part of the link text.

Option B requires the full link text to be exactly "Learn" which is unlikely.

Option B uses lowercase "learn" which is case sensitive and will not match "Learn".

Option B uses CSS selector which matches href attribute, not visible link text.

❓ Predict Output

intermediate

Output of partial link text locator code

Given the following HTML snippet:

<a href='/home'>Home Page</a>
<a href='/learn'>Learn Selenium</a>
<a href='/contact'>Contact Us</a>

What will be the text of the element found by:

element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Learn")
print(element.text)

A Learn Selenium

B Contact Us

C Home Page

D NoSuchElementException

💡 Hint

Partial link text matches visible text containing the substring.

The link with text "Learn Selenium" contains the substring "Learn" so it is found and printed.

Other links do not contain "Learn".

❓ assertion

advanced

Assertion for partial link text element presence

You want to write a test assertion to verify that a link containing the text "Docs" is present on the page using Selenium in Python. Which assertion is correct?

Selenium Python

element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Docs")

A assert element == None

B assert element.text == "Docs"

C assert element.is_displayed()

D assert element.get_attribute('href') == "Docs"

💡 Hint

Check if the element is visible, not exact text or attribute.

Option C asserts the element is visible on the page, which confirms presence.

Option C fails if the link text is longer than "Docs" (e.g., "Documentation").

Option C incorrectly compares href attribute to "Docs" string.

Option C asserts element is None which is false if element is found.

🔧 Debug

advanced

Debugging partial link text locator failure

You wrote this code to find a link containing "Help":

element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "help")

But it raises NoSuchElementException even though the page has a link with text "Help Center". What is the most likely cause?

A The element is inside an iframe and not accessible

B The link text "Help Center" is too long for partial link text

C The locator By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT does not work with spaces

D Partial link text matching is case sensitive, "help" does not match "Help"

💡 Hint

Check case sensitivity of partial link text.

Partial link text matching is case sensitive, so "help" does not match "Help".

Option D is false because partial link text matches any substring.

Option D is false; spaces are allowed.

Option D could cause failure but question states the link is on the page, so less likely.

❓ framework

expert

Best practice for waiting for partial link text element

In a Selenium test, you want to wait up to 10 seconds for a link containing "Start" to appear before interacting with it. Which code snippet correctly implements this wait using WebDriverWait and partial link text locator?

A element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Start")))

B element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a:contains('Start')")))

C element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "start")))

D element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.LINK_TEXT, "Start")))

💡 Hint

Use correct locator and expected condition for presence.

Option A waits for presence of element located by partial link text "Start" which is correct.

Option A uses full link text locator which may fail if text is longer.

Option A uses lowercase "start" which is case sensitive and may fail.

Option A uses invalid CSS selector syntax; :contains is not supported.