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What are the differences between findElement() and findElements() methods?
findElement() and findElements() method tries to search an element in DOM.
The differences between them are listed below −
| sl.no. | findElement() | findElements() |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It returns the first web element which matches with the locator. | It returns all the web elements which match with the locator. |
| 2 | Syntax − WebElement button = webdriver.findElement(By.name("<<Name value>>")); | Syntax − List<WebElement> buttons = webdriver.findElements(By.name("<<Name value>>")); |
| 3 | NoSuchElementException is thrown if there are no matching web elements | Empty list is returned if there are no matching elements. |
Example
Using findElements ().
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class RowFindElements {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/plsql/plsql_basic_syntax.htm";
driver.get(url);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// xpath with index appended to get the values from the row 1of table using findElements() , which returns a list
List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td"));
System.out.println(“The number of values in row 2 is “+ rows.size());
driver.close();
}
}Example
Using findElement ()
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class CssTagname {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm";
driver.get(url);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(12, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//Using id tagname attribute combination for css expression
//and get the element from findElement()
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=’search’]")).
sendKeys("Selenium");
driver.close();
}
}
Updated on: 10-Jun-2020
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