Welcome to Selenium Online Course
In Selenium, locators are used to find elements on a web page so that you can test them. Selenium WebDriver has several types of locators, each with its own advantages and use cases. Each type has its own advantages and use cases. Here are the commonly used locators:
- ID: The ID attribute uniquely identifies an element on the web page. You can locate an element using its ID attribute.
- Name: The Name attribute is another way to identify elements. It may not always be unique but can still be used to locate elements.
- Class Name: The Class Name locator selects elements based on their CSS class attribute. It’s useful when elements share the same class.
- Tag Name: This locator selects elements based on their HTML tag name. For example,
<input>,<button>,<a>, etc. - Link Text: If you have anchor (link) elements
<a>on the page, you can locate them by the visible text within the anchor. - Partial Link Text: Similar to Link Text, but you can use a partial match of the visible text.
- XPath: XPath is a powerful locator strategy that allows you to traverse the XML structure of an HTML document to locate elements. It provides a lot of flexibility but can be slower.
- CSS Selector: CSS Selector is another powerful way to locate elements based on CSS path expressions. It’s faster than XPath in most cases and is often preferred.
In this above video tutorial, we likely to cover about locators in a Selenium course:
- The syntax and usage of each locator type.
- Best practices for selecting locators that are stable and unique.
- Strategies for dealing with dynamic elements or complex page structures.
- How to handle situations where one locator type might be more suitable than another.
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