Get Attribute (Hyperlink)

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Hi Folks,

I am trying to use Get Attribute activity to get the url from a hyperlink.

However, it seems as the site was developed with js and actual url is not shown but just #. any idea how to go about this?

<a href="#" style="" type="link" onclick="mojarra.jsfcljs(document.getElementById('content'),{'content:j_idt814:j_id29: ProgressDT:j_id34-0':'conten:j_idt814:j_id29: ProgressDT:j_id34-0'},'_blank');return false" class="commandLink_MAIN">XXXXXXX</a>

Thanks in advance!

Rgs,
Jack

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@robot_learner

Check below for your reference

Hope this may help you

Thanks

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How to go about what? Do you just need to get the URL, or do you need to browse to the URL?

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Hi @postwick ,

Get the URL. However, as u can see, the url is only generated upon ‘onclick’.

Currently, ‘Get Attribute’ with ‘href’ only returns me ‘#’ which is not useful to me.

Hope it clarifies.

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Hi @Srini84

Let me try it out! Thx!

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if you just want to navigate to the hyperlink without using uipath to click it you can use inject js activity where the js file is a text file e.g. test.txt containing this:

function(e){
mojarra.jsfcljs(document.getElementById('content'),{'content:j_idt814:j_id29: ProgressDT:j_id34-0':'conten:j_idt814:j_id29: ProgressDT:j_id34-0'},'_blank');return false;
}

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in the inject js activity you also have to indicate an element inside the browser so that uipath knows where to target the JS

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Hi @jack.chan

Thanks for sharing! Let me try this out.

Between, as the content details will always changes, i.e. content:j_idt814 can be content:j_idt900 the next time, any idea how to go about w/o ‘hardcoding’ the js file?

Thanks!

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then it definitely needs to change, instead of using onclick() can try to use other properties that are fixed such as the class name / inner text etc. Is your link always in a fixed position?

if you are using chrome can you right click the page and click “view page source” and then upload the html source here?