Identifying elements in the page – CosmoCode (Formerly TeachMeSelenium)

Identifying elements in the page | CSS Selectors

In the Previous Tutorial, we took a deeper dive to the XPath ocean and learned to construct partial XPath by using the following XPath functions: contains() starts-with() text() wild-card * Indexing In this tutorial, we will learn to locate elements through CSS selectors. CSS Selectors are said to be faster than XPath and at times it …

Identifying elements in the page | XPath functions

In the Previous Tutorial, we learned the following – Introduction to the mighty XPath to locate elements on the page. Writing XPath query that starts searching the XML from root node by using single forward-slash ‘/’. Using double forward-slash ‘//’ at the start of the XPath query so that it could search the matching element anywhere in the XML. Look …

Identifying elements in the page | Introduction to XPath locators

In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to locate elements on the page by using the following attributes – id class name We discussed some challenges in that tutorial where we are not able to uniquely identify an element by using its id, class or name attribute. Here comes XPath to our rescue. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about the …

Identifying elements in the page | Inspect attributes like id, class, name etc of an element

In the Previous Tutorial, we wrote and run our very first Selenium script. In this tutorial, we will explore different ways of identifying elements in a web page. We’ll try to uniquely identify elements in the page using its one of the following attributes – id attribute name attribute class attribute What is a UI element in a web …