Selenium WebDriver Locators & Element Identification

Question 1

Which locator strategy is generally considered the most reliable for identifying web elements in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

ID

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XPath

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Class Name

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Tag Name

Question 2

What method is used to find a single element by its CSS selector in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("..."))

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driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("..."))

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driver.findElement(By.css("..."))

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driver.findElement(By.style("..."))

Question 3

Which By locator would you use to find an element with the HTML attribute `name="username"`?

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By.name("username")

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By.id("username")

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By.className("username")

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By.tagName("username")

Question 4

What does `driver.findElements()` return when no matching elements are found on the page?

Accepted Answer

An empty list

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null

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NoSuchElementException

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An empty WebElement object

Question 5

Which XPath expression correctly selects a button element whose exact text content is "Submit"?

Accepted Answer

//button[text()="Submit"]

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//button[contains(text()="Submit")]

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//button[@text="Submit"]

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//button[innerText="Submit"]

Question 6

What is the correct Selenium WebDriver syntax to locate an anchor element by its full visible link text?

Accepted Answer

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Click Here"))

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driver.findElement(By.text("Click Here"))

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driver.findElement(By.anchorText("Click Here"))

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driver.findElement(By.href("Click Here"))

Question 7

Which locator strategy in Selenium WebDriver finds elements when only part of the anchor text is known?

Accepted Answer

By.partialLinkText()

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By.partialText()

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By.containsLinkText()

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By.fuzzyLinkText()