Different locators and accessing them

 locators:

ID, Xpath, CSSSelector ,Classname, name, linkText

Below is example of Name and ID fields which you retrieved from inspecting on browser from elements section.

driver.get("https://rahulshettyacademy.com/angularpractice/")

driver.find_element(By.NAME,"email").send_keys("hello@gmail.com") ## fetched from name attribute of html element.

driver.find_element(By.ID,"exampleInputPassword1").send_keys("122324")  ## name not defined, so using ID as it is also unique.

driver.find_element(By.ID,"exampleCheck1").click()

video demo

Full Code for By.NAME and By.ID using brave browser

 

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

service_obj = Service()

# Configure Brave options
brave_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
brave_options.binary_location = r"C:\Users\UReddy\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

driver=webdriver.Chrome(service=service_obj, options=brave_options)

driver.maximize_window()

driver.get("https://rahulshettyacademy.com/angularpractice/")

driver.find_element(By.NAME,"name").send_keys("Randome Name")

driver.find_element(By.NAME,"email").send_keys("hello@gmail.com") ## fetched from name attribute of html element.

driver.find_element(By.ID,"exampleInputPassword1").send_keys("122324")  ## name not defined, so using ID as it is also unique.

driver.find_element(By.ID,"exampleCheck1").click()

#driver.close()

##if no name or id provided or they are not unique or not constant, can go with xpath.

## //tagname[@attribute='value']  --> //input[@type='submit']

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@type='submit']").click()

message=driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,"alert-success").text

print(message)

assert "Success" in message

Full code with xpath,classname

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

service_obj = Service()

# Configure Brave options
brave_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
brave_options.binary_location = r"C:\Users\UReddy\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

driver=webdriver.Chrome(service=service_obj, options=brave_options)

driver.maximize_window()

driver.get("https://rahulshettyacademy.com/angularpractice/")

##driver.find_element(By.NAME,"name").send_keys("Randome Name")
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"input[name='name']").send_keys("Randome Name")


driver.find_element(By.NAME,"email").send_keys("hello@gmail.com") ## fetched from name attribute of html element.


driver.find_element(By.ID,"exampleInputPassword1").send_keys("122324")  ## name not defined, so using ID as it is also unique.

driver.find_element(By.ID,"exampleCheck1").click()

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@value='Submit']").click()

message = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "alert-success").text
print(message)

assert "Success!" in message

driver.close()

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Can change the xpath for input fields above with CSS selector also.

##CSS selector - tagname[attribute='value']

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"input[name='name']").send_keys("Test message")

##can get css selector or xpath query using chropath plugin.

selectorshub chrome plugin, to validate xpath/css typed.

can generate css selectors above using id #id or class .classname

So when using ID field.

using id directly:   driver.find_element(By.ID,"inlineRadio1").click()

using css selector: driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"#inlineRadio1").click()

using xpath selector: driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"#inlineRadio1").click()

if we get multiple values matching, can index them.

(//input[@type='text'])[3]

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driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT,"Forgot password?").click()

driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT,"Forgot").click()

##xpath can go from parent to child.. //parentelement/childelement  By.XPATH

//form/div[1]/input

using css: By.CSS_SELECTOR

form div:nth-child(2) input

//xpath based on text.

//button[text()='Save New Password']

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