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I have items in pages web page. each page has image and text but the problem when I right click on the element I cant find href which I want to collect :

The CSS selector is

div.flex-item:nth-child(1) > a:nth-child(1)

CSS path is very long

xpath is :

/html/body/div[1]/section[3]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/a

The link I want to extract has this form:

<div>
<a class="mylink" href="https://mysite/item1">
<img>
<p> text </p>
</a>
</div>

the pagination look like this: 1 2 3 it is javascript so no loading.

Should I select list or table ? What I should write in these parameters to get all href links ?

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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Please refer below link
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/how-to/links-open-new-tabs

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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You are probably right clicking the wrong element and that's why it doesn't have the href. You might be targeting a child, a parent or a sibling of the <a> element that actually contains the href.

If you cannot capture it via the live web helper, you might as well put in the xpath into the Base CSS selector via the advanced options. You just need to modify it slightly as the syntax in PAD is different. It should look like this:

html > body > div:eq(1) > section:eq(3) > div > div > div > div > div > div > div:eq(2) > div:eq(1) > a

You don't need to do it as a list, unless you expect to get more than one item within a single page, in which case extracting it as a list makes sense. If that is really the case, you will actually need to shorten the Base CSS selector a bit and put some of the XPath into the CSS selector field. But I cannot really tell you exactly how to do that without seeing the full structure of the page, or what the XPath for the next element looks like.

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