selenium.webdriver.common.by

The By implementation.

Classes

By()	Set of supported locator strategies.

class selenium.webdriver.common.by.By

Set of supported locator strategies.

ID: – Select the element by its ID.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "myElement")

XPATH:

Select the element via XPATH.

• absolute path

• relative path

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//html/body/div")

LINK_TEXT:

Select the link element having the exact text.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "myLink")

PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

Select the link element having the partial text.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "my")

NAME:

Select the element by its name attribute.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "myElement")

TAG_NAME:

Select the element by its tag name.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "div")

CLASS_NAME:

Select the element by its class name.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "myElement")

CSS_SELECTOR:

Select the element by its CSS selector.

>>> element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.myElement")

ID = 'id'

XPATH = 'xpath'

LINK_TEXT = 'link text'

PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT = 'partial link text'

NAME = 'name'

TAG_NAME = 'tag name'

CLASS_NAME = 'class name'

CSS_SELECTOR = 'css selector'

classmethod register_custom_finder(name: str, strategy: str) → None

classmethod get_finder(name: str) → str | None

classmethod clear_custom_finders() → None