If an element is not found in an HTML DOM using xpath, then the NoSuchElementException is raised. This exception is thrown when the webdriver makes an attempt to locate a web element which is absent from DOM. This is normally encountered if we create an incorrect xpath for an element.The ... Read More

We can get the text from a website using Selenium webdriver USING the getText method. It helps to obtain the text for a particular element which is visible or the inner text (which is not concealed from the page).First of all, we have to identify the element on the page ... Read More

We can find an element using the link text or the partial link text in Selenium webdriver. Both these locators can only be applied to elements with the anchor tag.The link text locator matches the text inside the anchor tag. The partial link text locator matches the text inside the ... Read More

We can capture the tooltip in Selenium using the getAttribute method.This technique can only be used for an element which has the attribute in its html code.A tooltip text becomes visible from an element as we hover the mouse on it. To obtain the tooltip we have to pass the ... Read More

We can capture the tooltip on an element in Selenium using the Actions class. First, we shall have to create an object of the Actions class and then apply moveToElement to it.This method shall move the mouse to the middle of the element for which we want to capture the ... Read More

The findElement(By.xpath) method is used to identify an element which matches with the xpath locator passed as a parameter to this method. The findElements(By.xpath) method is used to identify a collection of elements which match with xpath locator passed as a parameter to that method.The method findElement(By.xpath) returns a web ... Read More

We can run Selenium tests on the Internet Explorer browser with the help of the Selenium IE driver. It is an independent server that works on the protocols of the webdriver and serves as a communication between the Internet Explorer browser and the Selenium code.First, we have to download the ... Read More

By class name can be used as a locating strategies in Selenium webdriver. We can identify an element utilizing class attribute with locators like class name, css and xpath. To locate webelement with css, the syntax is tagname[class='value'] and the method to be used is By.cssSelector.To locate webelement with xpath, ... Read More

We can set up Chrome driver with Selenium on MacOS by the following steps. First we have to download the chromedriver.exe file from the below link − https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloadsBased on the local Chrome browser version, click on the link for download. In the next page, choose the option chromedriver_mac64.zip link for ... Read More

We can find the xpath of the element that keeps changing with the help of the xpath functions. They help to identify an element having dynamic attribute value or text. Some of these functions are listed below −text() – Identifies an element with the help of the visible text on ... Read More