Locators has 4 matching nodes, how to write xpath in Selenium when we have 4 elements matching?

Question

My code in Selenium: driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/agent-create-profile'][1]")).click();

It gives error: Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//a[@href='/agent-create-profile'][1]"}

Selectors hub shows 4 matching elements with the provided xpath:


 Create Profile 

 Let's start 

 Agent Sign up 

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Below is the html code:
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user_4439019 · Answer

I think you are missing a set of parentheses, at the start of your xpath and before you hit [1]

Try this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//a[@href='/agent-create-profile'])[1]")).click()

Another alternative if you want the first element:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Create Profile')]")).click()

user_12730112 · Answer

As xpath attributes are unique: there is one more option for xpath additionally to the existing answer:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@xpath='1']"));

And css is very similar:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[xpath='1']"));

user_13412076 · Answer

Please try with the method- partialLinkText:

 driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Create Profile")).click();

Or you can select all links as list and iterate through for loop and match with the required link text fetching by getText() method. IF possible please share the website link.

List linkList = driver.findElements(By.xpath(“”));
for(WebElement link : linkList) {
   if (link.getText().contains(“create-profile”)) {
   link.click();
   break;
   }
}

Locators has 4 matching nodes, how to write xpath in Selenium when we have 4 elements matching?

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