Selenium FindElement Command:<\/b><\/h2>\n
FindElement command uses By object as a parameter and returns an object of type WebElement. By object can be used with different locator strategies like Name, ID, ClassName<\/a>, XPath, LinkText, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n WebElement elementName = driver.findElement(By.LocatorStrategy(\u201cLocatorValue\u201d));<\/b><\/p>\n Following are the Locator Strategy values:<\/span><\/p>\n Locator Value is the value through which a web element can be identified uniquely. It is the developer\u2019s and tester\u2019s job to make sure that web elements are identified uniquely with properties like Name or ID. <\/span><\/p>\n [box type=”success” align=”” class=”” width=””]<\/p>\n Example:<\/b><\/p>\n WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.linkText(\u2018Login\u201d));\u00a0<\/b>[\/box]<\/p>\n FindElements command uses By object as the parameter and returns a list of web elements<\/a>. It returns an empty list if no elements are found when given locator strategy and locator value.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n List<WebElement> elementName = \u00a0 \u00a0 driver.findElements(By.LocatorStragety(\u201cLocatorValue\u201d));<\/b><\/p>\n [box type=”success” align=”” class=”” width=””]<\/p>\n Example:<\/b><\/p>\n List<WebElement> Elementslist = driver.findElements(By.xpath(\u201c\/\/div\u201d));<\/b><\/p>\n [\/box]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The below application is used for demo purpose:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Scenario:<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The below application is used for demo purpose:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Scenario:<\/b><\/p>\n Need for Find Element and FindElements command? A user is required to interact with a web page to locate the web element. The command Find Element is used to uniquely locate a web element within the web page. Whereas, the command FindElements is used to locate the list of web elements within the web page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[156,561,1835,1834,558,559,7,448,51,560],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selenium-tutorials","tag-automation-testing","tag-difference-between-findelement-and-find-elements","tag-findelement-command","tag-selenium-find-elements","tag-selenium-findelement","tag-selenium-findelements","tag-selenium-quiz","tag-selenium-webdriver","tag-software-testing","tag-syntax-of-findelement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Syntax of FindElement Command<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Selenium FindElements Command:<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Difference between findElement and find Elements Methods<\/b><\/h2>\n
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\n findElement<\/b><\/td>\n findElements<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Return single element\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n Returns a list of elements<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n It returns only first element when multiple elements are found using the same locator<\/span><\/td>\n Return all elements from a list of web elements<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n If no matching element found, throw NoSuchElementFound Exception<\/span><\/td>\n If no matching element found, then it will return an empty list<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Return single element<\/span><\/td>\n To get the element from the list, we need to iterate over it<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Apply to find element method over element found<\/span><\/td>\n Not possible to apply<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Not Applicable<\/span><\/td>\n Each Web Element is indexed with 0 number just like an array<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n How to use Selenium findElement Command<\/b><\/h2>\n
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package<\/b>\u00a0 com.testing.selenium.findelement;<\/span>\n\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.By;<\/span>\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;<\/span>\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;<\/span>\n\npublic<\/b> class<\/b> FindElement {<\/span>\npublic<\/b> static<\/b> void<\/b> main(String[] args) {<\/span>\n\n\/\/ TODO Auto-generated method stub<\/span>\n\nSystem.setProperty(\"webdriver.chrome.driver\", \"D:\\\\Drivers\\\\chromedriver.exe\");<\/span>\n\nWebDriver driver = <\/span>new<\/b> ChromeDriver();<\/span>\n\ndriver.manage().window().maximize();<\/span>\n\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\");<\/span>\n\n\/\/Find the radio button for Gender \"Male\" by using its ID and click on it<\/b>\n\ndriver.findElement(By.id(\"u_0_7\")).click();<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0}<\/span>\n\n}<\/span><\/pre>\nHow to use Selenium find Elements Command<\/b><\/h2>\n
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package<\/b> com.testing.selenium.findelements;<\/span>\n\nimport<\/b> java.util.List;<\/span>\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.By;<\/span>\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;<\/span>\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;<\/span>\nimport<\/b> org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;<\/span>\n\npublic<\/b> class <\/b>\u00a0FindElements {<\/span>\npublic static<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>void<\/b> main(String[] args) {<\/span>\n\n\/\/ TODO Auto-generated method stub<\/span>\n\nSystem.setProperty(\"webdriver.chrome.driver\", \"D:\\\\Drivers\\\\chromedriver.exe\");<\/span>\n\nWebDriver driver =\u00a0 <\/span>new<\/b> ChromeDriver();<\/span>\n\ndriver.manage().window().maximize();<\/span>\n\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\");<\/span>\n\n\/\/Find the radio button for Gender \"Male\" by using its ID<\/b>\n\nList<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.id(\"u_0_7\"));<\/span>\n\nSystem.out.println(\"Number of elements:\" +elements.size());<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>for<\/b>(<\/span>int<\/b> i=0;\u00a0 i<elements.size();\u00a0 i++){<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0System.out.println(\"Radio button text:\" + elements.get(i).getAttribute(\"value\"));<\/span>\n\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 }<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\u00a0}\n\n}<\/span><\/pre>\nConclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n
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