Selenium C# - Unable to click on element with xlink:href attribute

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I am fairly new to Selenium for C#. I want to click on the element between the <svg> tag (image below). I have tried the following :

 driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//use[@href='#events-widget']")).Click();
 driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//use[@href='#events-widget'/]")).Click();
 driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//use[@xlink:href='#events-widget']")).Click();
 driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//use[@xlink:href='#events-widget']/")).Click();
 driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Events")).Click();

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Help would be appreciated :)

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Is the FindElement returning an IWebElement? – Mike Weber
Yes it returns an IWebElement – Shashank
Sometimes you got to click twice because the first time only focus the control. In other words, you have to repeat the line twice. – Fjodr
@Fjodr Hi ! I will try that :). But are any of these calls correct ? – Shashank
you can test the xpath in the console of the browser's developer tools by entering $x("//use[@href='#events-widget']") – Mike Weber

1 Answers

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I'm not using Selenium from C#, but from Nightwatchjs. We're using <svg> for icons and I select the <use xlink:href="/svg-icons/sprite.stack.svg#sort-ascending"></use> element with this css selector:

'use[*|href="/svg-icons/sprite.stack.svg#sort-ascending"]'

I would guess this also works from C#.