VBA to click a dynamic href - html

Question

I'm trying to click a link on a website with the tag:
<a href="/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:D01441:>D01441</a>
However, I'm doing this after searching for a unique item (I have an array of >9000 unique items), and the "D01441" part is different for each item, and I don't know in advance what it will be for each. The following code is in a loop that goes through each item and searches for it one at a time. After searching, I would like to click on a link that appears (the code above) and do more things on that next web page.
Dim IE As Object
Dim ele As Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
...
For Each ele In IE.document.getElementsByTagName("a")
If ele.Href = "/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:D01441" Then
ele.Click
Exit For
End If
Next
The above code doesn't work and I'm not sure why. But once I get it to work, I don't know how to modify the "D01441" part so that I can click on any searched item's link. Here's more html around the link I want:
<tbody>
<tr> ... </tr>
<tr>
<td class = "data1">
<a href = "/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:D01441:>D01441</a>
</td>
<td class = "data1">..</td>
<td class = "data1">..</td>
...
EDIT: To try to deal with the changing "D01441", I tried using InStr but it doesn't work either:
For Each ele In IE.document.getElementsByTagName("a")
If InStr(ele.Href, "/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:") = 1 Then
MsgBox "There"
ele.Click
Exit For
End If
Next

Answer 1

CSS selectors:
Try using a CSS selector combination applied via querySelector method of document to target the common start part of the href.
Applying the selector combination:
IE.document.querySelector("a[href^='/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:']").Click
Understanding the selector combination:
This uses a CSS selector combination to target the element with:
a[href^='/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:']
This says element with a tag having attribute href whose value starts with
'/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:' . The ^ means starts with.
Query in action:
Here is the selector in action on your HTML sample:
Side note:
If you have multiple elements with a tags and an href that starts with /dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:, it will match the first one, in most instances. If that is the case seeing more HTML would help. I think there are a few problems with that HTML sample because in theory a more selective CSS query might be .data1 a[href^='/dbget-bin/www_bget?dr:'], so as to include the parent element class of data1, "." being a class selector.

Answer 2

#QHarr answer is the elegant and best solution, but...
To address your issue of getting the part number from the href, you can use the InStr like this
For Each ele In IE.document.getElementsByTagName("a")
Dim partNumber As String
Dim colonPosition As Long
colonPosition = InStr(1, ele.Href, ":", vbTextCompare)
If colonPosition > 0 Then
partNumber = Right$(ele.Href, Len(ele.Href) - colonPosition)
Debug.Print partNumber
End If
Next ele