Xpath is one of the most important locators used in Selenium for identifying web elements. It works in the following ways −It navigates through the Document Object Model (DOM) with the help of elements and their attributes for identification.Although it helps to locate the elements uniquely, it is slower in ... Read More

The different methods of creating a css expression are listed below −Using a class as css selectorThis will select all the web elements of that particular class. (Represented by (.) for example - .classname)Using an id as css selector.This will select the web element of that particular id. (Represented by ... Read More

We can identify the nth sub element using xpath in the following ways −By adding square brackets with index.By using position () method in xpath.Exampleimport 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 SubElement {    public static void main(String[] args) {       ... Read More

Each of the locators has some significance. If the page contains uniqueattribute values, we should use them first. However if there are no unique elements, we should use css selector as it is more effective in terms of speed.Css also has a drawback that we cannot traverse from child to ... Read More

To identify elements based on text visible on page, text() method is used in xpath.Syntax −driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tagname[text()=’value’]"))Exampleimport 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 TextMatch {    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new ... Read More

We can identify elements by partially comparing to its attributes in Selenium with the help of regular expression. In xpath, there is contains () method. It supports partial matching with the value of the attributes. This method comes as useful while dealing with elements having dynamic values in their attributes.Syntax driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tagname[contains(@attributes, ... Read More

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 ... Read More

The total number of headers in the web table can be counted with the help of findElements() method. The logic is to return a list of web elements with xpath with the help of tag inside the table, then getting the size of that list.Code ImplementationExampleimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.Keys; ... Read More

The total number of links in a page can be counted with the help of findElements() method. The logic is to return a list of web elements with tagname anchor, then getting the size of that list.Code ImplementationExampleimport 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 ... Read More

Selenium extracts the text of a webelement with the help of getText() method.Code Implementation with getText().Exampleimport 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 ExtractText {    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new ... Read More