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How to find an element using the attribute “id” in Selenium?
We can find an element using the attribute id with Selenium webdriver using the locators - id, css, or xpath. To identify the element with css, the expression should be tagname[id='value'] and the method to be used is By.cssSelector.
To identify the element with xpath, the expression should be //tagname[@id='value']. Then, we have to use the method By.xpath to locate it. To locate an element with locator id, we have to use the By.id method.
Let us look at the html code of an element with id attribute −
Syntax
WebElement e = driver. findElement(By.id("session_key"));
WebElement m = driver. findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=' session_key']"));
WebElement n =
driver. findElement(By.cssSelector("input[id=' session_key']"));Example
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class LocatorId{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",
"C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
//implicit wait
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//URL launch
driver.get("https://www.linkedin.com/");
// identify element with Id
WebElement l = driver.findElement(By.id("session_key"));
l.sendKeys("Java");
//identify element with css
WebElement m = driver.
findElement(By.cssSelector("input[id='session_key']"));
String s = m.getAttribute("value");
System.out.println("Attribute value: " + s);
//identify element with xpath
WebElement n = driver.
findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='session_key']"));
n.clear();
driver.quit();
}
}Output
Updated on: 03-Apr-2021
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