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# Step 1: Click a link by its text

## The lecture

After a recap of how to find elements, the lecture shows that an anchor tag can be clicked with the `.click()` method, so the browser navigates by itself instead of by a mouse click. It then introduces a shortcut for links: find the link by the text it displays, here "Content portals".

## The code

```python
def click_link_by_text(browser, link_text=LINK_TEXT_CONTENT_PORTALS):
    browser.find_element(BY_LINK_TEXT, link_text).click()
```

`BY_LINK_TEXT` is the same value as Selenium's `By.LINK_TEXT`; a unit test guards that. The link text lives in `constants.py`.

## What the browser shows

![The Wikipedia page "Contents/Portals" after the click](https://git.tirsystem.com/Tirsvad-Udemy-100-days-of-code/048-fill-out-form/raw/branch/main/docs/images/step-1-click-link.png)

## What we gained

- A link is an element like any other: find it, then call `.click()`.
- `By.LINK_TEXT` finds a link by its visible text, which is simpler than a CSS selector.
- After the click the browser has moved to a new page; the next step starts from there.