While performing any action on a web page using selenium, there is need of locators to perform specific tasks.
Locators in web page are used to identify unique elements within a webpage. Web elements could be anything that the user sees on the page, such as title, table, links, buttons, toggle button, or any other HTML element.
In order to find element by ID find_element_by_id() method is used. Id is basically unique attribute assigned to the elemnts of the we page such as buttons, image, heading etc.
Syntax :
driver.find_element_by_id(ID)
Argument :
Takes ID in string format
Note :The first element with the ID attribute value matching the location will be returned. If no element has a matching ID attribute, a NoSuchElementException will be raised.
Example 1 : –
Consider the following page source :
Below is the code for finding the element i.e “geek_id”
#importing webdriver from selenium from selenium import webdriver # Here Chrome will be used driver=webdriver.Chrome() # Opening the website driver.get(url) # finds button using its id form = driver.find_element_by_id('geek_id') |
The form element can be located like this.
Example :
Source code of https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ is given below.
Below is the code for finding the scroll button with the help of its ID i.e scrollTopBtn.
#importing webdriver from selenium from selenium import webdriver # Here Chrome will be used driver=webdriver.Chrome() # URL of website # Opening the website driver.get(url) # finds button using its id bt = driver.find_element_by_id('scrollTopBtn') |
With this code we can locate the scroll top button of this site.
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