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how to click a link in a table on a webpage only if the row has a specific value

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Posted on by clinton572 2

Hi, I am trying to click a link conditionally. the bot should only click the link if the row item contains a certain value. For example if the Type column contains "WI3" then the bot should click maginifying glass icon, should skip the row and move to next if any thing else like "WI2" or "WI1". Can someone please help me with the same

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    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @clinton572 

     

    You have to try this jquery selector 

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1682392138604.png

     

    Here %i% is a index variable created from PAD which is made to run on a loop like below

     

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1682392172895.png

     

     

    However, i would recommend the below method of using datascrapping to extract all details including link of the magnifying glass button and navigate through each link

    Nived_Nambiar_2-1682392453594.png

     

    Here you can specify next page element so that bot can move through all pages and then you can easily navigate through 🙂

     

    Hope this helps 

    Mark it as solution if it resolves your query 🙂

     

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    wheneverdisorie 2 on at

    Hello @Nived_Nambiar ,

     

    Thank you for your solution above. I wanted to follow up on a similar problem. I need to click a magnifying glass in a table on a webpage as well, but only if the value matches the current date. Unfortunately, I tried scraping the data but the link is not a link that can be scraped. I used the jQuery selector you showed above but instead I made the query as so: table[class="table"]tr:has(td:contains(%FormattedDateTime%)):eq(%CurrentItem%) td a button

     

    I use the current item to go through a loop to go through each row in the web page to see if it contains the current date but it seems to not click on any even if they match the current date. Could you help with this?

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