Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver

© Courtney Zhan, Edited by Zhimin Zhan 2024

Z. Zhan (ed.)Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0023-8_2

2. Locating Web Elements

Courtney Zhan¹  

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Fitzgibbon, QLD, Australia

 

As you may have already figured out, to drive an element in a page, you need to find it first. Selenium uses locators to find and match elements on web page. There are eight locators in Selenium, shown in Table 2-1.

Table 2-1

Selenium Locators

Table	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")) ...