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Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications. Selenium provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language. Before Going Ahead Please refer to this page if you had not installed Selenium. This article revolves around Locators in Selenium and various strategies.

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Webdriver

Selenium WebDriver drives a browser natively, as a real user would, either locally or on remote machines. To start a web browser python selenium Module Needs webdriver. One can download it from here for chromium browser 

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# Python program to demonstrate
# Webdriver For Firefox
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://mbasic.facebook.com")


How to Use Other Webdriver

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# Firefox
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# Google Chrome
driver = webdriver.Chrome()


Getting Source of a Web-Page/URL

By Using this one can get the complete page source/code of current opened URL/Web-Page. 

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# Python program Continued
# Webdriver For Firefox
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://mbasic.facebook.com")
html = driver.page_source # Getting Source of Current URL / Web-Page Loaded
print(html)
# End


Output: python-selenium

One Need to Go Through the Source Code Of the Page To Create Selenium Automated Script

For Example :- python-selenium

Locating Elements By :-

1. Id

HTML Elements have some attribute “id” which can be used to Locate Those Elements. For Example :- Finding Input Box For Email Field 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Input Box For Email Field
# Go Through the Screen Shot Above or Page Source
driver.find_element_by_id("m_login_email")
# End


2. Name

HTML Elements Have attribute “name” associated with them which can be used to Locate Those Elements. For Example :- Finding Input Box For Password Field 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Input Box For Password Field
# Go Through the Screen Shot Above or Page Source
driver.find_element_by_name("pass")   
# End


3. Link Text

HTML Elements which are actually a Link To another Page can be Located using that particular Link Text. For Example :- Finding Forgotten Password Link Field 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Forgotten Password Link Field
driver.find_element_by_link_text("Forgotten password?")
# End


4. Partial Link Text

HTML Elements which are actually a Link To another Page can be Located using that particular Partial Link Text. For Example :- Finding Forgotten Password Link Field 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Forgotten Password Link Field
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Forgotten password?")
# End


5. XPath

HTML Elements can be Easily Found by using this For Example :- Find Email and Password Input Field 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Creating a Reference of Form For Finding Email and Password
# Reference for Form Finding
form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id ='login_form']")
# Email
email = form.find_element_by_name("email")
# Password
password = form.find_element_by_name("pass")
# End


6. Tag Name

HTML Elements can be Easily Found by using Tag Name For Example :- Finding Elements by using tag name like Title, Head, Body, Html, a, div, etc. 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Title of Facebook Login Page
# Output will be "Facebook - log in or sign up"
title = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("title")
print(title)
# End


7. CSS Selector

HTML Elements can be Easily Found by using CSS For Example :- Finding Elements by using Class, style, etc. 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Password Input Field Using Class Name "bl bm bo bp"
password = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input.bl.bm.bo.bp')
# End


8. Class Name

HTML Elements can be Easily Found by using Class name For Example :- Finding Elements by using Class Name. 

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# Python program Continued
 
# Finding Password Input Field Using Class Name "bl bm bo bp"
password = driver.find_element_by_class_name('bl bm bo bp')
# End


9. Entering Input in an Input Field Using Selenium Script

It is Used to Insert Input into Input Field Using inbuilt Function send_keys. 

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# Python program Continued
  
# Creating a Reference of Form For Finding Email and Password
 
# Reference for Form Finding
form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id ='login_form']")
 
email = form.find_element_by_name("email")
password = form.find_element_by_name("pass")
 
# Inserting("abc@gmail.com") in the Email Input Field
email.send_keys("singh.swaraj1999@gmail.com")
 
# Inserting("Your Facebook Password") in the Password Input Field
password.send_keys("Your Facebook Password")  
 
# End


10. Locating Submit Button

It is Used to Locate the Submit Button Which is used to submit a form 

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# Python program Continued
  
# Creating a Reference of Form For Finding Email and Password
form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id ='login_form']")
email = form.find_element_by_name("email")
password = form.find_element_by_name("pass")
email.send_keys("singh.swaraj1999@gmail.com") 
password.send_keys("Your Facebook Password")
 
# Locating Submit Button
submit_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type ='submit']")
submit_button.click()  # Button Click
# End


Output:- locators-in-selenium-3

11. Complete Code to Demonstrate Login Into Facebook

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# Python program to demonstrate Facebook Login
from selenium import webdriver
 
driver = webdriver.Firefox() 
driver.get("https://mbasic.facebook.com") 
# Creating a Reference of Form For Finding Email and Password
form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id ='login_form']")
email = form.find_element_by_name("email")
password = form.find_element_by_name("pass")
email.send_keys("singh.swaraj1999@gmail.com")
password.send_keys("Your Facebook Password")
submit_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type ='submit']")
submit_button.click()
# Error Password in Output
# Because i had not used my real password here
# End


Output:- locators-in-selenium-4



Last Updated : 01 Nov, 2023
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