What are the different types of locators in Selenium?

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

Pavan Ramamurthy5y

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

Sanjeev Singh6y

Locator can be termed as an address that identifies a web element uniquely within the webpage. Thus, to identify web elements accurately and precisely we have different types of locators in Selenium: ID ClassName Name TagName LinkText PartialLinkText Xpath CSS Selector DOM

Kapi Shivhare10y

What are the different types of locators in Selenium?

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