Locators in Selenium

To locate a web element we use  findElement method e.g. driver.findElement(By.id(“idname”)). Here the id is a locator there total 8 locators supported by selenium

Locator	HTML Tag	Accessing using selenium
id	<input type=”text” id=”email” />	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.id(“email”));
name	<input type=”text” name=”email” />	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.name(“email”));
LinkText	< a href=http://google.com> My link </a>	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.linkText(“My Link”));
Partial LinkText	< a href=http://google.com> My link </a>	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText (“My “));
TagName	<input type=”text” name=”email” />	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.tagName (“input”));
ClassName	<input type=”text” name=”email”  class=”css”/>	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.className (“css”));
css elector	css=input[id=email]	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(“input[id=email’]”));
xpath	Click here for xpath tutorial	WebElement Element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//tr/td “));