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Difference between find Element and find Elements in Selenium
There are differences between findElement and findElements method in Selenium webdriver. Both of them can be used to locate elements on a webpage. The findElement points to a single element, while the findElements method returns a list of matching elements.
The return type of findElements is a list but the return type of findElement is a WebElement. If there is no matching element, a NoSuchElementException is thrown by the findElement, however an empty list is returned by the findElements method.
A good usage of findElements method usage is counting the total number of images or accessing each of images by iterating with a loop.
Syntax
WebElement i = driver.findElement(By.id("img-loc"));
List<WebElement> s =
driver.findElements(By.tagName("img"));Code Implementation
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.List;
public class FindElementFindElementMthds{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java \chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
//implicit wait
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//URL launch
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/upsc_ias_exams.htm");
//identify single element
WebElement elm = driver.findElement(By.tagName("h2"));
String s = elm.getText();
System.out.println("Get text on element: " + s);
//identify all elements with tagname
List<WebElement> i = driver.findElements(By.tagName("img"));
//count
int c = i.size();
System.out.println("Number of images: " + c);
//browser close
driver.close();
}
}Output
Updated on: 25-Jun-2021
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