Hi,
In this post, you will see the demonstration of "name" locator usage.
"name" is one of the 8 locators supported by selenium, using it one can navigate to target page by performing click action(s).
For instance, Login to gmail @ https://mail.google.com/
Let's see how to identify the name locators of login elements for gmail web application.
Email or Phone input text input HTML with "name" locator
Enter your password text input HTML with "name" locator
In this post, you will see the demonstration of "name" locator usage.
"name" is one of the 8 locators supported by selenium, using it one can navigate to target page by performing click action(s).
For instance, Login to gmail @ https://mail.google.com/
Let's see how to identify the name locators of login elements for gmail web application.
Email or Phone input text input HTML with "name" locator
<inputtype="email"class="whsOnd zHQkBf"jsname="YPqjbf"
autocomplete="username"spellcheck="false"tabindex="0"
aria-label="Email or phone"name="identifier"value=""autocapitalize="none"
id="identifierId"dir="ltr"data-initial-dir="ltr"data-initial-value="">
Enter your password text input HTML with "name" locator
<inputtype="password"class="whsOnd zHQkBf"jsname="YPqjbf"
autocomplete="current-password"spellcheck="false"tabindex="0"
aria-label="Enter your password"name="password"autocapitalize="off"
dir="ltr"data-initial-dir="ltr"data-initial-value="">
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selenium identifies the above input elements(username and password for gmail) using "name" locator with the following java statements.
driver.findElement(By.name("identifier")).sendKeys("java.selenium2021@gmail.com");
WebElement elePassword=driver.findElement(By.name("password"));
elePassword.sendKeys("JavaSelenium2021");Take a look at the following example or watch this 1 min no voice video tutorial for end-to-end demo understanding and execution.
nameLocatorDemo.java
//name locator demo
package selenium.locators.examples;
importjava.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
importorg.openqa.selenium.By;
importorg.openqa.selenium.Keys;
importorg.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
importorg.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
importorg.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
publicclassnameLocatorDemo{
publicstaticvoidmain(String[] args){
WebDriver driver;
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\006_trainings\\chromedriver.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.silentOutput","true");
driver =new ChromeDriver();
driver.navigate().to("https://mail.google.com/");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
// locate "Email or Phone" text input with "name" locator and enter email say --> java.selenium2021@gmail.com
driver.findElement(By.name("identifier")).sendKeys("java.selenium2021@gmail.com");
// click on "Next" button - This is an xpath example that will be covered in later sessions
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@class='RveJvd snByac']")).click();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//locate "Enter your password" text input with "password" locator and enter password say --> JavaSelenium2021
WebElement elePassword=driver.findElement(By.name("password"));
elePassword.sendKeys("JavaSelenium2021");
elePassword.sendKeys(Keys.TAB);
elePassword.sendKeys(Keys.TAB);
// click on "Next" button - This is again an xpath example.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'Next')]")).click();
//close the driver
//driver.close();
}
}
- Sadakar Pochampalli