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Tirsvad 9565ebe66d Add README screenshots and a three-language wiki (MIL-003)

Wiki pages in English, Danish and Bahasa Malaysia for the home page and the
three lecture steps, with a sidebar and the screenshots; README with the
screenshots table and wiki links; review RC-011.

Task: MIL-003#1

2026-10-28 16:24:57 +08:00

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English · Dansk · Bahasa Malaysia

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

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

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.

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