What are the differences between findElement() and findElements() methods in Selenium with python?

Selenium Web Driver Automation Testing Software Testing

The web elements on the page need to be accessed with findElement() and findElements() methods in order to perform actions on them. However there are dissimilarities between them, they are listed below −

The findElement method is used to work with one matching web element at a time. The findElements method is used to work with a list of matching elements.
If there is no matching element found on the page, findElement throws a NoSuchElementException whereas an empty list is returned if there are no matching elements on the page.

Syntax for findElement method

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]")

Syntax for findElements method

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[@type='text']")

Example

Code Implementation with findElements method.

from selenium import webdriver
#browser exposes an executable file
#Through Selenium test we will invoke the executable file which will then #invoke actual browser
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\chromedriver.exe")
# to maximize the browser window
driver.maximize_window()
#get method to launch the URL
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/selenium_automation_practice.htm")
#to refresh the browser
driver.refresh()
# identifying the edit boxes with type attribute in a list
edt =driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[@type='text']")
# len method is used to get the size of that list
print(len(edt))
#to close the browser
driver.close()

Code Implementation with findElement method.

from selenium import webdriver
#browser exposes an executable file
#Through Selenium test we will invoke the executable file which will then #invoke actual browser
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\chromedriver.exe")
# to maximize the browser window
driver.maximize_window()
#get method to launch the URL
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/selenium_automation_practice.htm")
#to refresh the browser
driver.refresh()
# identifying the edit boxes with findElement then using send_keys method
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='firstname']")
.send_keys("Selenium")
driver.close()

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Published on 29-Jul-2020 09:32:29

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