The Significance of WebElement In Selenium

In this blog post, we are going to explore the significance of WebElement in Selenium-based software testing services. 

Anything which is present on the web pages is web elements like text boxes, dropdown, search fields, buttons, etc. Web elements present on the web pages represents an HTML element and all HTML documents are made by a combination of HTML elements. We can find web elements by searching from the document root using a Webdriver instance or by searching under another web element.

 
Web drivers provide two methods for finding elements:

1. findElement() – It is used to finds a single web element and it returns as a WebElement object.

2. find elements() – It returns basically a list of WebElement objects which match the locator criteria.

1. FindElement()

It returns the first matching web element if multiple web elements are discovered by the locator.
It doesn't throw No Such Element Exception if the element is not found.
It detects a unique web element.

2. FindElements()

It returns a list of multiple matching web elements from the web page.
It returns an empty list if no matching element is found on the web page.
It returns a collection of matching elements.

LOCATORS

These are the way through which we can find an HTML element on a web page. Almost All the UI automation tool provides a way for using locators so we can identify HTML elements on a web page. Selenium also provides the ability to use locator and are popularly known as selenium locators. Selenium also supports various kinds of locators.

FEW WEB ELEMENTS COMMANDS/ACTIONS ARE:

1. clear( ) : void:- If the element is a text entry element, this action will clear the value. 
              Command – element.clear();

2. sendKeys(CharSequence… keys To Send ): void:- This simulates typing into an element, which may set its value.
              Command - element.sendKeys("text");  

3. click() : void:- It simulates the clicking of any element. 
              
              Command - element.click();  

4. isDisplayed() : boolean  :- This method determines if an element is currently being displayed or not
              Command - element.isDisplayed();  

5. isEnabled( ) : boolean :- This determines if the element currently is Enabled or not? 
                 
              Command – element.isEnabled();

At Oodles Technologies, our SaaS app development services include end-to-end quality assurance and software testing services. We have a skilled team of QA engineers that specializes in performing a variety of automation testing techniques with a focus on improving app performance, its usability, and accessibility. Our QA team holistically tests your software application on all major performance metrics to detect critical bugs, loopholes, and software glitches. Our development team fixes these bugs to ensure that your app performance seamlessly across the supported devices with minimal downtime or latency.