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Selenium Selectors Cheat Sheet



Selenium Cheat Sheet for Java. Download Selenium. Download selenium webdriver in this link. Dirty our hands! By CSS Selector.

  1. I was recently asked by a colleague for some advice on locators and I shared this cheat sheet with him. It contains just about everything you need to know for formulating locators for use with Selenium (and also Marionette), and includes syntax for both xpath and css selectors. I hope you find it as useful as I do. Selenium Locators Cheat Sheet.
  2. Consider using the Selenium DSL in a script driven test. Selenium provides support for Java, Python, Ruby, Groovy, PHP, and C#. Selenium IDE helps get a script-driven test started by exporting to a unit test format. For example, consider the following test in the Selenese table format: Use the Selenium IDE File menu, Export, Python Selenium RC.
  3. This cheat sheet has examples on common methods used in Selenium Automation. Suggestion is to learn Core Java before moving to Selenium Automation. If you already know Java then Selenium is peanut for you. Although Selenium supports various programming languages (C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python & Ruby etc.) but this cheat sheet has exmples using.


For Python version the link is here

Python


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Install Java

To install Java go to this link


IDE

You can use any text editor. I recommend Eclipse as it is free and have extensive support. For list of popular editors , this are the links


Download Selenium

Download selenium webdriver in this link


Dirty our hands !


Import Selenium



Browsers support (Firefox , Chrome , Internet Explorer, Edge , Opera)

Driver setup:

Chrome:

System.se­tPr­ope­rty­('we­bdr­ive­r.chrome.d­riv­er', “'Pat­h To­ chromedr­ive­r');

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Firefox:

System.se­tPr­ope­rty­('we­bdr­ive­r.g­eck­o.d­riv­er', '­Pat­h To­ g­eck­odr­ive­r');

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Internet Explorer:

System.se­tPr­ope­rty­('we­bdr­ive­r.ie.d­riv­er', 'Pat­h To­ IEDriverServer.exe');

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Edge:

System.se­tPr­ope­rty­('we­bdr­ive­r.edge.d­riv­er', 'Pat­h To­ MicrosoftWebDriver.exe');

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Opera:

System.se­tPr­ope­rty­('we­bdr­ive­r.opera.d­riv­er', 'Pat­h To­ operadriver');

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To download: visit GitHub

Browser Arguments:

–headless

To open browser in headless mode. Works in both Chrome and Firefox browser

–start-maximized

To start browser maximized to screen. Requires only for Chrome browser. Firefox by default starts maximized

–incognito

To open private chrome browser

–disable-notifications

To disable notifications, works Only in Chrome browser

Example:


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Alternative


Launch URL


Retrieve Browser Details:


Navigation


Locating Elements

By id

<input id=”login” type=”text” />


By Class Name

<input class=”gLFyf” type=”text” />


By Name

<input name=”z” type=”text” />


By Tag Name

<div id=”login” >…</div>


By Link Text

<a href=”#”>News</a>


By XPath

<form id=”login” action=”submit” method=”get”>

Username: <input type=”text” />

Password: <input type=”password” />

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</form>


By CSS Selector

<form id=”login” action=”submit” method=”get”>

Username: <input type=”text” />

Password: <input type=”password” />

</form>


Clicking / Input text

Clicking button


Send Text


Waits

Implicit Waits

An implicit wait instructs Selenium WebDriver to poll DOM for a certain amount of time, this time can be specified, when trying to find an element or elements that are not available immediately.


Explicit Waits

Explicit wait make the webdriver wait until certain conditions are fulfilled . Example of a wait


List of explicit waits

  • alertIsPresent()
  • elementSelectionStateToBe()
  • elementToBeClickable()
  • elementToBeSelected()
  • frameToBeAvaliableAndSwitchToIt()
  • invisibilityOfTheElementLocated()
  • invisibilityOfElementWithText()
  • presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy()
  • presenceOfElementLocated()
  • textToBePresentInElement()
  • textToBePresentInElementLocated()
  • textToBePresentInElementValue()
  • titleIs()
  • titleContains()
  • visibilityOf()
  • visibilityOfAllElements()
  • visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy()
  • visibilityOfElementLocated()



Selenium Css Selector Attribute

Loading a list of elements like li and selecting one of the element



Read Attribute


Get CSS

CSS values varies on different browser, you may not get same values for all the browser.

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Capture Screenshot

This will saved the file as in the path of destFile.


isSelected()

isSelected() method in selenium verifies if an element (such as checkbox) is selected or not. isSelected() method returns a boolean.


isDisplayed()

isDisplayed() method in selenium webdriver verifies and returns a boolean based on the state of the element (such as button) whether it is displayed or not.


isEnabled()

is_enabled() method in selenium python verifies and returns a boolean based on the state of the element (such as button) whether it is enabled or not.

Minimum modules to import


Created : 17 December 2019