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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

You're reading from   Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition Leverage the power of Selenium to build your own real-time test cases from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396497
Length 318 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Raghavendra Prasad MG Raghavendra Prasad MG
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Selenium IDE FREE CHAPTER 2. Locators 3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver 4. Finding Elements 5. Design Patterns 6. Working with WebDriver 7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities 8. Mobile Devices 9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid 10. Advanced User Interactions 11. Working with HTML5 12. Advanced Topics 13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation B. Answers for Self-test Questions Index

Finding elements


When working with WebDriver on a web application, we will need to find elements on the page. This is the core to being able to work. All the methods to perform actions on the web application (such as typing and clicking) require searching the element first.

Finding an element on the page by its ID

The first item that we will look at is finding an element by ID. Finding elements by ID is one of the easiest ways to do this. We will start with findElementByID(). This method is a helper method that sets an argument for a more generic findElement call. We will see now how we can use it in action. The method's signature looks like the following code:

  findElementById(String using);

The using variable takes the ID of the element that you wish to look for. It will return a WebElement object that we can then work with.

Using findElementById()

We will find an element on the page using the findElementById() method that is on each of the browser driver classes. The findElement calls will...

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