Selenium Easy to Learn: 08. Selenium Commands

Element Locator

Element Locators tell Selenium which HTML element a command refers to.

The format of a locator is:  locatorType=argument

Example: - (“link=click”)

Selenium supports the following strategies for locating elements:

id=id

Select the element with the specified @id attribute

name=name

Select the first element with the specified @name attribute.

·         username

·         name=username

xpath=xpathExpression

Locate an element using an XPath expression.

·         xpath=//img[@alt='The image alt text']

·         xpath=//table[@id='table1']//tr[4]/td[2]

link=textPattern

Select the link (anchor) element which contains text matching the specified pattern.

·         link=The link text

Command	Usage	Description
start()	selenium.start();	Launches the browser with a new Selenium session
stop()	selenium.stop();	Ends the current Selenium testing session (normally killing the browser)
click()	selenium.click("link=Home"); selenium.click("name=send");	Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.
doubleClick()		Double clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the double click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.
type()	Type( string locator, string value ); selenium.type("name=login[username]", ndasam);	Sets the value of an input field, as though you typed it in. Can also be used to set the value of combo boxes, check boxes, etc. In these cases, value should be the value of the option selected, not the visible text.
check()	Check( string locator ); selenium.check ("guest”);	Check a toggle-button (checkbox/radio)
uncheck()	Uncheck( string locator );	Uncheck a toggle-button (checkbox/radio)
select()	Select( string selectLocator, string optionLocator ); selenium.select("payware_expiration_yr", "label=2010”);	Select an option from a drop-down using an option locator.