How to locate web elements in Selenium-Python

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How to locate web elements using Selenium-Python?
May 27, 2019 in Selenium by Urvashi
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@Urvashi in Python, Selenium Webdriver API supports multiple ways to identify element/s by using following strategies:

1. By ID:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_id()

Example: elemUserMessage = driver.find_element_by_id("user-message")

2. By Name:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_name()

Example: elementFormControl=driver.find_element_by_name("comment")

3. By XPath:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_xpath()

Example: elemcheckBtn=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='cb1-element']")

4. By ClassName:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_class_name()

Example: elemSendBtn=driver.find_element_by_class_name("btn")

5. By TagName:

Syntax: driver.find_element_by_tag_name()

Example: elemALink = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("a")

6. By CSS Selector:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_css_selector()

Example: testButton = driver.find_element_by_class_name("test_button_unknown")

7. By Link Text:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_link_text()

Example: elemHome = browser.find_element_by_link_text("Home")

8. By Partial Link text:

Syntax:- driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text()

Example: elemContactUsLink = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Contact")

To find multiple elements, you have to use find_elements_*, these methods will return a list of webelements matching with the specified locator. For eg. find_elements_* - will return you list of web elements. If there are no matching elements with the specified locator, it just returns an empty list. But when we use find_element_*, it throws a NoSuchElementException exception.

Hope this will help!

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Thank!

answered May 27, 2019 by Anvi
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