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Finding components in Selenium WebDriver is performed with the assistance of findElement() and findElements() techniques gave by WebDriver and WebElement class.

• findElement() restores a WebElement object dependent on a predefined search models or winds up tossing a special case in the event that it doesn't discover any component coordinating the pursuit rules.
• findElements() restores a rundown of WebElements coordinating the inquiry models. On the off chance that no components are discovered, it restores an unfilled rundown.

The accompanying table records all the Java linguistic structure for finding components in Selenium WebDriver.

Method	Syntax	Description
By ID	driver.findElement(By.id (<element ID>))	Locates an element using the ID attribute
By name	driver.findElement(By.name (<element name>))	Locates an element using the Name attribute
By class name	driver.findElement(By.className (<element class>))	Locates an element using the Class attribute
By tag name	driver.findElement(By.tagName (<htmltagname>))	Locates an element using the HTML tag
By link text	driver.findElement(By.linkText (<linktext>))	Locates a link using link text
By partial link text	driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText (<linktext>))	Locates a link using the link's partial text
By CSS	driver.findElement(By.cssSelector (<css selector>))	Locates an element using the CSS selector
By XPath	driver.findElement(By.xpath (<xpath>))	Locates an element using XPath query

Locators Usage

Presently let us comprehend the handy use of every one of the locator strategies with the assistance of https://www.calculator.net

By ID

Here an item is gotten to with the assistance of IDs. For this situation, it is the ID of the content box. Qualities are gone into the content box utilizing the sendkeys technique with the assistance of ID(cdensity).

driver.findElement(By.id("cdensity")).sendKeys("10");

By Name

Here an article is gotten to with the assistance of names. For this situation, it is the name of the content box. Qualities are gone into the content box utilizing the sendkeys strategy with the assistance of ID(cdensity).

driver.findElement(By.name("cdensity")).sendKeys("10");

By Class Name

Here an item is gotten to with the assistance of Class Names. For this situation, it is the Class name of the WebElement. The Value can be gotten to with the assistance of the gettext technique.

List<WebElement> byclass = driver.findElements(By.className("smalltext smtb"));

By Tag Name

The DOM Tag Name of a component can be utilized to find that specific component in the WebDriver. It is anything but difficult to deal with tables with the assistance of this strategy. Investigate the accompanying code.

WebElement table = driver.findElement(By.id("calctable"));
List<WebElement> row = table.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
int rowcount = row.size();

By Link Text

This technique assists with finding a connection component with coordinating obvious content.

driver.findElements(By.linkText("Volume")).click();

By partial link text

 

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Volume")).click();

By CSS

The CSS is utilized as a technique to distinguish the webobject, anyway NOT all programs support CSS ID.

WebElement loginButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input.login"));

By XPath

XPath represents XML way language. It is an inquiry language for choosing hubs from a XML archive. XPath depends on the tree portrayal of XML archives and gives the capacity to explore around the tree by choosing hubs utilizing an assortment of rules.

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id = 'content']/table[1]/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]/input")).sendkeys("100");