Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition

CHAPTER 2

Locating Web Elements

As you might have already figured out, to drive an element in a page, we need to find it first. Selenium uses what are called locators to find and match the elements on a web page. There are eight locators in Selenium, as listed in Table 2-1.

Table 2-1. Locators in Selenium

Locator	Example
ID	FindElement(By.Id("user"))
Name	FindElement(By.Name("username"))
Link Text	FindElement(By.LinkText("Login"))
Partial Link Text	FindElement(By.PartialLinkText("Next"))
XPath	FindElement(By.Xpath("//div[@id="login"]/input"))
Tag Name	FindElement(By.TagName("body"))
Class Name	FindElement(By.ClassName("table"))
CSS	FindElement(By.CssSelector, ...