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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
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**English** · [Dansk](Step-1-Link-Click-da) · [Bahasa Malaysia](Step-1-Link-Click-ms)
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# Step 1: Click a link by its text
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## The lecture
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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".
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## The code
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```python
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def click_link_by_text(browser, link_text=LINK_TEXT_CONTENT_PORTALS):
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browser.find_element(BY_LINK_TEXT, link_text).click()
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```
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`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`.
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## What the browser shows
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## What we gained
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- A link is an element like any other: find it, then call `.click()`.
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- `By.LINK_TEXT` finds a link by its visible text, which is simpler than a CSS selector.
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- After the click the browser has moved to a new page; the next step starts from there.
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