We can send keyboard input to a textbox on a webpage in Selenium webdriver in Python using the method send_keys. The text to be entered is passed as a parameter to that method.To perform keyboard actions, we can also use the send_keys method and then pass the class Keys. as a parameter to that method. To use the Keys class, we have to add from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys statement to the code.Syntaxi = driver.find_element_by_name("txt") i.send_keys("Selenium") i.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)Let us try to send keyboard input to a textbox on a page −Examplefrom selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys #set chromodriver.exe path driver ... Read More

We can display all items in the list in the dropdown with Selenium webdriver using the Select class. A dropdown is represented by select tag and itsoptions are represented by option tag.To obtain all the list of items we have to use the method getOptions. Its return type is list. Then we have to iterate through this list and obtain it with the help of the getText method.Let us see the html code of a dropdown along with its options – Please select an option, Option 1 and Option 2.SyntaxWebElement d = driver.findElement(By.tagName("select")); Select l = new Select(d); List m ... Read More

We can loop through a menu list on a webpage using Selenium webdriver.In a webpage, a list is represented by an ul tag and it consists of elements with li tag. Thus the li tag can be said as the child of ul.First, we have to identify the element with ul tag with any locator, then traverse through its li sub-elements with the help of a loop. Finally, use the method getText to obtain the text on the li elements.Let us try to identify the menu list on a webpage.Exampleimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import ... Read More

We can get details of a web page like url, title, domain name of webpage using JavaScript Executor in Selenium webdriver. Selenium can execute JavaScript commands with the help of the executeScript method. The command to be executed is passed as a parameter to that method.SyntaxTo get the page title, JavascriptExecutor j = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; String s = j.executeScript("return document.title;").toString();To get the current URL, String p = j.executeScript("return document.URL;").toString();To get the domain, String d = j.executeScript("return document.domain;").toString();Exampleimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class JavaScrptScope{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", ... Read More

We can use JavaScript Executor to click and enter data to a web element in Selenium webdriver. Selenium can run JavaScript commands with the help of the executeScript method.To click an element, the parameters to the executeScript method are - arguments[0].click(); and the webelement locator.SyntaxWebElement l = driver.findElement(By.className("gsc-input")); JavascriptExecutor j = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; j.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", l);Then to enter data to the edit box, the parameter passed to the executeScript method is – web element locator.valueSyntaxj.executeScript("document.getElementsByName('gsc-i-id1')[0].value= 'Java'");Let us try to click on the below edit box and enter data into it.Exampleimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor; ... Read More

We can get page source as it is in browser using Selenium webdriver using the getPageSource method. It allows us to obtain the code of the page source.SyntaxString p = driver.getPageSource();We can also obtain the page source by identifying the body tag with the help offindElement method and then apply the getText method on it. The parameter By.tagName is passed as a parameter to the findElement method.SyntaxWebElement l= driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")); String p = l.getText();ExampleCode Implementation with getPageSourceimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class PgSrc{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", ... Read More

We can get the attribute value of a web element with Selenium webdriver using the method getAttribute and then pass the attribute for which we want to get the value as a parameter to that method.In an html code, an element is defined with attributes and its values in a key-value pair. Let try to get the class – heading, for the below element on the page −SyntaxWebElement t =driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[text()='About Tutorialspoint']")); String s = t.getAttribute("class");Exampleimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class AttribtValue{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", ... Read More

Some of the prominent drawbacks of Selenium are listed below −Has assistance for only web oriented applications.Time consuming to configure the environment unlike the paid tools like UFT.Has no features provided by Test Management tools like ALM or UFT.New characteristics introduced in Selenium, sometimes do not work as expected.Has no in-built test report generation. It has to be integrated with TestNG/JUnit for reports.Cannot be integrated with Test Management tools like ALM or UFT.Cannot be used for verifying images.Has no record and play feature, hence building a test script needs considerable time and effort.Cannot be used for verifying mobile applications. We ... Read More

We can find an element that contains specific text with Selenium webdriver in Python using the xpath. This locator has functions that help to verify a specific text contained within an element.The function text() in xpath is used to locate a webelement depending on the text visible on the page. Another function contains() in xpath is used to locate a webelement with the sub-text of actual text visible on the page.Let us try to identify the element having the specific text - Privacy Policy.Syntaxl = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[text()='Privacy Policy']") m = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(), 'Privacy')]")Examplefrom selenium import webdriver #set chromodriver.exe path driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe") ... Read More

We can open a link in the new tab of Chrome browser using Selenium webdriver using the methods Keys.chord and sendKeys. The method Keys.chord is used to send multiple keys simultaneously as parameters.To open a new tab, the Keys.CONTROL and Keys.ENTER are passed as parameters to the Keys.chord. Finally, the Keys.chord is passed as a parameter to the sendKeys.Let us click on the Jobs links in a new tab, highlighted in the below image −SyntaxString l = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.ENTER); driver.findElement(By.xpath ("//a[@title='Job @ Tutorials Point']")).sendKeys(l);Exampleimport org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import org.openqa.selenium.Keys; public class ElementLocator{    public ... Read More