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Locate Web Elements By Class Name And Tag Name In Selenium

In this article, we will see - how to locate web element using a class name and tag name

Example

In this example, we want to click on the logo of gyansangrah.com so that page will be navigated to the home screen.

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Now let us check the rendered HTML of the above image, you will get the following HTML.

Picture showing the rendered HTML of the head section of the website

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To accomplish this, we can locate by using class name as well as tag name. So code will be

package com.FirstSeleniumProject;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

public class MyClass {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		WebDriver driver;
		String service = "IEDriverServer path";
		System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", service);
		driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
		driver.get("http://gyansangrah.com/Articles.aspx");
		// Locating by link text
		driver.findElement(By.className("Logo")).findElement(By.tagName("a")).click();
	}
}

Output

Picture showing how to Locate web elements by class name and tag name in selenium

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Saturday, April 1, 2017

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