How to click a link whose href has a certain substring in Selenium?

I need to click the link whose href has substring “long” in it. How can I do this?

With the beauty of CSS selectors.

your statement would be…

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href*='long']")).click();

This means, in english,

Find me any ‘a’ elements, that have the href attribute, and that attribute contains ‘long’

You can find a useful article about formulating your own selectors for automation effectively, as well as a list of all the other equality operators. contains, starts with, etc… You can find that at: http://ddavison.io/css/2014/02/18/effective-css-selectors.html