
Discover how web locators identify HTML elements on a page for automated testing and QA. Use browser developer tools and the console to locate and test elements across browsers.
Discover how the DOM maps HTML elements into a hierarchical family of parents, children, and siblings, and learn to inspect and use these relationships to access page elements.
Learn how HTML element IDs serve as the most reliable web locator when unique, and verify single matches with document.querySelectorAll and CSS selectors, focusing on input fields.
Explore how to locate elements in the dom using xpath with concise one-line selectors, including the $x pattern, and learn why simple, unique paths beat long traversals.
Web locators are very important in web automation, whether for test or any other purpose. Because everything in web development go for Automation now, including integration in CI/CD pipelines and nightly regression tests, so web locators are nowadays more important than ever.
To write a web locator, there's a selections of methods available. Engineers have developed many ways to write web locators. Because in different situations, one or the other web locator may be fit for a specific case. Web locators can depend on Id, a classname, a type, a name or some other property. In other cases, we may be obliged to use XPath. Don't worry, the definition of each of these as well as examples and use cases are covered within this course.
We learn in this course what a robust web locator means. How we can write robust web locators. We also learn how to choose the best locator between the different types available for use.
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