finding elements in selenium python code example
Example 1: find element vs find elements in selenium
Differences between findElement and findElementS method?
--> findElement():
-It does returns SINGLE web element.
- Return type: WebElement
- If it cannot find a web element, it throw - NoSuchElementException
--> findElements():
- Returns a List of WebElements
- Return type: List<WebElement>
Example 2: driver.find_element_by_xpath
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="emailField"]')
Example 3: find elements in selenium
#In Python
#Let's say that we want to locate the h1 tag in this HTML:
#<html>
# <head>
# ... some stuff
# </head>
# <body>
# <h1 class="someclass" id="greatID">Super title</h1>
# </body>
#</html>
h1 = driver.find_element_by_name('h1')
h1 = driver.find_element_by_class_name('someclass')
h1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//h1')
h1 = driver.find_element_by_id('greatID')
Example 4: selenium select element by id
driver.findElement(By.id("ui-datepicker-div"));