What are the various locators that Selenium supports?

The various types of locators that Selenium support are listed below −

• ID − This attribute is unique for every element.

  Syntax − driver.findElement(By.id(">")).

• Name − This attribute is not unique for every element.

  Syntax − driver.findElement(By.name(">")).

• CSS Selector − This can be derived from element tags and attributes.

  Syntax −

  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(">")).

• xpath − This can be derived from element tags and attributes.

  Syntax −

  driver.findElement(By.xpath(">")).

• TagName − This can be derived from the HTML tags to identify the elements.

  Syntax − driver.findElement(By.tagName(">")).

   

• LinkText − This can be derived from the anchor text to identify the elementsz

  Syntax − driver.findElement(By.linkText(">")).

• PartialLinkText − This can be derived from the partial anchor text to identify the elements

  Syntax − driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText(">")).

• Classname − This can be derived from the class name attribute

  Syntax − driver.findElement(By.className(">")).

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class Locator {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
      String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm";
      driver.get(url);
      driver.manage().window().maximize();
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      // Identify with Id attribute
      driver.findElement(By.Id("gsc-i-id1")).click();
      // Identify with name attribute
      driver.findElement(By.name("search")).click();
      //Identify with css attribute driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=’search’]"))
      .click();
      //Identify with xpath attribute driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name=’search’]"))
      .click();
      // Identify with class name attribute
      driver.findElement(By.className("gsc-input")).click();
      //Identify with link text attribute
      driver.findElement(By.linkText("Home")).click();
      //Identify with partial link text attribute
      driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Hom")).click();
      //Identify with tagname attribute
      driver.findElement(By.tagName("input")).click();
      driver.close();
   }
}