Class Name Locator

Locating an element by using value of Class attribute of the webelement.

Scenario :

Open URL https://mail.rediff.com/

Click on the Signin button.

Close the browser

Following is the steps to locate the element using Class Name property on webpage.

1  Right click on Sign in webelement on the page and select inspect option in the context menu

Pick the class attribute value of the element.

Syntax for locating a web element using its Class Name attribute is written as:

driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,<className Value>)

or

driver.find_element_by_class_name(<className Value>)

Below is the script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
chromePath="C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe"


driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromePath)
driver.get("https://www.rediff.com/")

driver.find_element_by_class_name("signin").click()

Note: If there are multiple elements with the same Class Name locator then the first element on the page is selected. Test may fail, if another element with the same Class Name locator is present on the web page.