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6. Other Useful APIs

Shashank Shukla1  
(1)
Mandla, India
 
In this chapter, you learn more WebdriverIO API methods. These are methods that are good to know because they are often asked during interviews to check your knowledge. The chapter discusses the following.

  • Shadow DOMS

  • Getting an HTML page source and an element’s HTML code

  • Getting the active element, location, and size

  • Getting the tag name, property, and CSS property

Dealing with a Shadow DOM

A shadow DOM encapsulates an element’s DOM tree so that it can’t accidentally be changed by the main document. For instance, suppose there is a ...

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