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Locators for Selenium Web Driver

As we already discussed that Selenium Web Driver work only with the Web Application. In every Web Application there are several Web Pages. In each Web pages there are several Web Element.

Now the question is what is the Web Element?

Everything that is showing on Web Page is the Web Element. Web Element is the Text Box, Button, Text Are, Radio Button, Checkbox, Link, Images, Browser Button, Text, iFrame, pop up window, pop up screen, Confirmation Box, Alert Box all are Web Element.

For Locate any element we use two add-ons of firefox

  • FireBug: This is the add-ons of firefox. You can download and install it from here
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After install it will show like below snapshot in your Firefox browser
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  • FirePath: This is the add-ons of firefox. You can download and install it from here

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After install it will show like below snapshot in your Firefox browser once you will press F12 button 

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To locate these Web Element on the Web Page , we need  locators. Selenium Web Driver use 8 locators to locate every Web Element on the Web Page. These locators are
  • Id: In this locator select the element with the @id attribute. 
  • Name: In this locator select the element with the @name attribute. 
  • Linktext: Visible text with link that exactly matches with the provided Text.
  • Partial Linktext: Visible text with link that partially matches with the provided Text.
  • Tag Name: Locate element using Tag Name
  • Class Name: Locate element using Class Name
  • CSS: Locate element using CSS Selectors
  • Xpath: Locate element using XPath expression. 
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