Link Locator

Link locator applies only to hyperlink texts. The links on a web page can be identify with the help of anchor tag (<a>). Other than <a>  any other tags is not considered as a link locator. 

Scenario :

Open URL https://mail.rediff.com/

Click on the Create Account Link. 

Following is the steps to locate the element using Link  on webpage.

    Right click on Create Account webelement on the page and select inspect option in the context menu

Pick the text of Link tag

Syntax for locating a web element using its Link Text is written as:

driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT,<linktext>)

or

driver.find_element_by_link_text(<linktext>)

  

Script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
chromePath="C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe"


driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromePath)
driver.get("https://www.rediff.com/")

driver.find_element_by_link_text("Create Account").click()

Note: If there are multiple elements with the same link text then the first one will be selected. Link Text locator works only on links (hyperlinks).