As the name suggests, the By.linkText locating mechanism can only be used to identify the HTML links. Before we start discussing how WebDriver can be commanded to identify a link element using link text, let's see what an HTML link element looks like. The HTML link elements are represented on a web page using the <a> tag, an abbreviation for the anchor tag. A typical anchor tag looks like this:
<a href="http://demo-store.seleniumacademy.com/customer/account/" title="My Account">My Account</a>
Here, href is the link to a different page where your web browser will take you when you click on the link. So, the preceding HTML code when rendered by the browser looks like this:
This MY ACCOUNT is the link text. So the ...
