Find Element and Find Elements in Selenium Webdriver

To automate a web application using Selenium WebDriver, we need to locate the elements on a web page. We use different locators to uniquely identify a web element within the web page such as ID, Name, Class Name, Link Text, Partial Link Text, Tag Name and XPATH. In Selenium we have two methods to find an element/elements on web page.

1)   Find_Element

2)   Find_Elements

Find_Element() :This method is used to find single web element on web page. If it finds more that one similar elements on web page, it returns the first matching element.It will throw an NoSuchElementException exception when there is no element to find on web page.

Scenario :

Open URL: http://newtours.demoaut.com

Enter UserName and Password

Click on the Login button.

Verify the Window Title

Close the browser

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("http://newtours.demoaut.com")
driver.find_element_by_name("userName").send_keys("hello")
driver.find_element(By.NAME,"password").send_keys("hello")
driver.find_element_by_name("login").click()
print(driver.title)
driver.close()

Find_Elements(): Find Elements method returns a list of similar web elements. It returns an empty list if there are no elements found on web page and also it does not throw NoSuchElementException

Scenario:

Find No of Links and Print the Text of the Links on Web Page

Open URL: http://newtours.demoaut.com

Script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
chromePath="C:\\BrowserDriver\\chromedriver.exe"
driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromePath)
driver.get("http://newtours.demoaut.com")

List=[]
List=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a")

print(“No of Links On WebPage is “,len(List))

for Eleobj in List:
    print(“Link Test is “,Eleobj.text)