Method Syntax Description

By ID driver.findElement(By.id ())
Locates an element using the ID attribute

By name
driver.findElement(By.name ())
Locates an element using the Name attribute

By class name
driver.findElement(By.className ())
Locates an element using the Class attribute

By tag name
driver.findElement(By.tagName ())
Locates an element using the HTML tag

By link text
driver.findElement(By.linkText ())
Locates a link using link text

By partial link text
driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText ())
Locates a link using the link’s partial text

By CSS
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector ())
Locates an element using the CSS selector

By XPath
driver.findElement(By.xpath ())
Locates an element using XPath query

Selenium supports 8 different types of locators namely id, name, className, tagName, linkText, partialLinkText, CSS selector and xpath. Using id is one of the most reliable and fast methods of element recognition. Usually, the id is always unique on a given web page