Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Locating an element using the findElement method

Locating elements in Selenium WebDriver is done by using the findElement() and findElements() methods provided by WebDriver and WebElement class.

The findElement() method returns a WebElement object based on a specified search criteria or throws up an exception if it does not find any element matching the search criteria.

The findElements() method returns a list of WebElements matching the search criteria. If no elements are found, it returns an empty list.

Find methods take a locator or query object as an instance of By class as an argument. Selenium WebDriver provides By class to support various locator strategies. The following table lists various locator strategies supported by Selenium WebDriver: ...