Element Locator

  • Element Locators tell Selenium which HTML element a command refers to.
  • The format of a locator is: locatorType=argument

Locator Types:

  • identifier=id
  • id=id
  • name=name (also name=flavour value=chocolate)
  • dom=javascriptExpression
  • xpath=xpathExpression
  • link=textPattern
  • css=cssSelectorSyntax

See Element Locators in WWW-Selenium for examples.