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# Click On Text With Capybara
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Traditionally, web apps have clickable text in the form of links and buttons.
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[Capybara's
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`click_on`](https://www.rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/Capybara/Node/Actions#click_link_or_button-instance_method)
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method is made for just this.
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```ruby
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click_on("Home") # for <a ... >Home</a>
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click_on("Submit") # for <button ...>Submit</button>
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```
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A lot of more modern, JS-heavy apps stick click handlers on all kinds of
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elements. If you want to test what happens when you click some text that is not
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a link or button, `click_on` won't work. Instead, you'll need to find the
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element and
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[`click`](https://rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/master/Capybara/Node/Element#click-instance_method)
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on it.
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```ruby
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find("span", text: "Click Me").click
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```
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