WebDriver Methods

Methods inside WebDriver

WebDriver methods explained:

Now we know WebDriver object is a java object representation of the browser, we can use methods inside it and interact with our web browser.

This is the method that we user to open a URL in the browser.
This method accept a string parameter which will be the URL the we want to open
URL should be well structured (meaning with the protocol either http:// or https://)

Example:

driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/");

Example: here

String currentUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl();

This method returns the title of the current page that is opened in the browser.
This will be the value of <title> tag inside the <head> section of the current page source.

Example: here

String title = driver.getTitle();

Example: here

String source = driver.getPageSource();

This method helps navigating in the browser based on it's history. Like forward, back, refresh, navigating to some URL etc.,)

Example: here

driver.navigate().back();
driver.navigate().forward();
driver.navigate().refresh();
driver.navigate().to("https://www.facebook.com/");

Example: here

driver.close();

Example: here

driver.quit();

This method finds the particular element in the page which matches the given locator mechanism mention inBy .
If the specified locator mechanism is matching more than one element then Selenium will always selects the first one to appear in the page source.

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("submit-button"));

This method finds the list of all elements in the page which matches the given locator mechanism mention inBy .

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.className("q"));
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElement(By.tagName("a"));

By is a class in selenium library which has static methods with all the locator mechanisms.

Example: By.id, By.name, By.cssSelector etc.,

To know more about locators Here

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