# Cannot verifyElementAttributeValue with "href" attribute

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614>\
**Category:** Web Testing\
**Tags:** web-testing, katalon-studio\
**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614 "2019-08-01T02:41:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vnduc74](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/vnduc74/32/958_2.png) [@vnduc74](https://forum.katalon.com/u/vnduc74)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614/1 "2019-08-01T02:41:15Z")

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My element has the XPath is “//a[@href = ‘[//www.autobyduc.vn](https://www.autobyduc.vn)’ and (text() = ’ Help Center’)]”.  
But I cannot verifyElementAttributeValue with this “href” attribute. Please advise and let me now the workaround. Thanks!

String help\_site = ‘[//www.autobyduc.vn](https://www.autobyduc.vn)’  
WebUI.verifyElementAttributeValue(findTestObject(‘Page/a\_Help Center’), ‘href’, help\_site, 5)

> Reason:  
> com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to verify if object ‘Object Repository/Page/a\_Help Center’ has attribute ‘href’ with value ‘/www.autobyduc.vn’  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.stepFailed(KeywordMain.groovy:48)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.stepFailed(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:65)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.runKeyword(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:27)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.VerifyElementAttributeValueKeyword.verifyElementAttributeValue(VerifyElementAttributeValueKeyword.groovy:109)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.VerifyElementAttributeValueKeyword.execute(VerifyElementAttributeValueKeyword.groovy:70)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordExecutor.executeKeywordForPlatform(KeywordExecutor.groovy:56)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords.verifyElementAttributeValue(WebUiBuiltInKeywords.groovy:3252)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords$verifyElementAttributeValue$0.call(Unknown Source)  
> at Partner\_TC03\_Reporting.run(Partner\_TC03\_Reporting:67)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:194)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:119)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.RawTestScriptExecutor.runScript(RawTestScriptExecutor.java:34)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.RawTestScriptExecutor.doExecute(RawTestScriptExecutor.java:29)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:301)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:293)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:227)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCaseRawScript(TestCaseMain.java:151)  
> at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain$runTestCaseRawScript$0.call(Unknown Source)  
> at TempTestCase1564575140153.run(TempTestCase1564575140153.groovy:91)

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**Author:** ![Marek\_Melocik](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/marek_melocik/32/371_2.png) [@Marek\_Melocik](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Marek_Melocik)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614/2 "2019-08-01T06:17:39Z")

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Hi,

can you share full exception? Mainly “Caused by” part.

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**Author:** ![vnduc74](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/vnduc74/32/958_2.png) [@vnduc74](https://forum.katalon.com/u/vnduc74)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614/3 "2019-08-01T07:04:18Z")

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it’s the full console log. what do you need?

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**Author:** ![vnduc74](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/vnduc74/32/958_2.png) [@vnduc74](https://forum.katalon.com/u/vnduc74)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614/4 "2019-08-01T07:12:07Z")

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Thanks! I missed ‘https:’ when defining the String help\_site = ‘[https://www.sautobyduc.vn](https://www.sautobyduc.vn)’.

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**Author:** ![albert.vu](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/albert.vu/32/20595_2.png) [@albert.vu](https://forum.katalon.com/u/albert.vu)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/cannot-verifyelementattributevalue-with-href-attribute/30614/5 "2022-08-08T07:24:42Z")

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