I have problem to use locater of www::selenium to follow a link of a webpage. This link has a id as its locater and with a href attribute, not a exactly html link. I can't find any instruction or codes to explains this.

<a id="ctl00_MainCol_DataList1_ctl00_SearchListing1_FrmImage_hlMoreInfo" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MainCol$DataList1$ctl00$SearchListing1$FrmImage$hlMoreInfo','')">More Info</a><br />

When I use click($locator), of cause it gives me error messages.

The selenium RC and perl function really good on my PC. I just need selenium to surf some link and get_text(). This can save me lots of work. Very appreciated if anyone can help me out.

Zli034

In reply to Need help with selenium locator by zli034

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