More locators for locating single elements
.math-table {
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}
.math-table td {
border: 1px solid #5fb962;
text-align: left !important;
padding: 8px;
}
.math-table th {
border: 1px solid #5fb962;
padding: 8px;
}
.math-table tr>th{
background-color: #c6ebd9;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.math-table tr:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: #ffffff;
}
Locators | Description |
---|---|
find_element_by_id | The first element with the id attribute value matching the location will be returned. |
find_element_by_name | The first element with the name attribute value matching the location will be returned. |
find_element_by_xpath | The first element with the xpath syntax matching the location will be returned. |
find_element_by_link_text | The first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned. |
find_element_by_partial_link_text | The first element with the partial link text value matching the location will be returned. |
find_element_by_tag_name | The first element with the given tag name will be returned. |
find_element_by_class_name | the first element with the matching class attribute name will be returned. |
find_element_by_css_selector | The first element with the matching CSS selector will be returned. |
find_element_by_class_name() driver method – Selenium Python
Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out – Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as w3wiki, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task. This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_element_by_class_name()
is discussed in this article.
Syntax –
driver.find_element_by_class_name("class_of_element")
Example –
For instance, consider this page source:
html
< html > < body > < p class="content">Site content goes here.</ p > </ body > < html > |
Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using –
content = driver.find_element_by_class_name('content')