find_element_by_partial_link_text() driver method - Selenium Python

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out - Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as geeksforgeeks, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task.
This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, ) is discussed in this article. With this strategy, the first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned. If no element has a matching link text attribute, a NoSuchElementException will be raised.

Syntax -

driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Text of Link")

Example -

For instance, consider this page source:

HTML

<html>
 <body>
  
<p>Are you sure you want to do this?</p>

  <a href="continue.html">Continue</a>
  <a href="cancel.html">Cancel</a>
</body>
<html>

Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using -

login_form = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, 'Conti')

How to use driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, ) method in Selenium?

Let's try to practically implement this method and get a element instance for "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/". Let's try to grab First navbar link using its partial link text "Tuto".

Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT) method -

Python3

# Python program to demonstrate
# selenium

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# enter keyword to search
keyword = "geeksforgeeks"

# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

# get element 
element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Tuto")

# print complete element
print(element)

Now run using -

Python run.py

First, it will open firefox window with geeksforgeeks, and then select the element and print it on terminal as shown below.

Browser Output -

find_element-driver-method-Selenium-Python

Terminal Output -

More locators for locating single elements

Locators	Description
find_element_by_id	The first element with the id attribute value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_name	The first element with the name attribute value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_xpath	The first element with the xpath syntax matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_link_text	The first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_partial_link_text	The first element with the partial link text value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_tag_name	The first element with the given tag name will be returned.
find_element_by_class_name	the first element with the matching class attribute name will be returned.
find_element_by_css_selector	The first element with the matching CSS selector will be returned.