Types of locaters in Selenium Webdriver

Types :  

• Finding element by id
• Finding elemeny by name 
• Finding element by link.
• Finding element by Xpath.
• Finding element by CSS
• Findidng element by DOM
• Finding child eleme

Finding element by id :

 

For Example : driver.findElement(By.id(userid));

 

Finding elemeny by name :

 

driver.findElement(By.name("logon"));

 

Finding element by link:

 

driver.findElement(By.linkText("rank list"));

 

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("rank"));

 

Finding element by Xpath:

 

-- To find xpath user can use fire bug.

 

//table/tr[2]/td/input

 

//input[@id='item_quantity']

 

(//table[@name='cart']//input)[2]

 

//input[contains(@class,'required')]

 

//input[contains(@class,'required') and type='text']

 

some more options..

 

// xpath iposition

 

//Xpath relative

 

Finding element by CSS

 

driver.findElements(By.css("input[class~='required']"));
driver.findElements(By.class("required"));

 

Finding elements by DOM

 

document.forms[0].elements[0]

 

document.forms['loginOut'].elements['username']