How to find an element using the attribute “name” in Selenium?

We can find an element using the attribute name with Selenium webdriver using the locators - name, css, or xpath. To identify the element with css, the expression should be tagname[name='value'] and the method to be used is By.cssSelector.

To identify the element with xpath, the expression should be //tagname[@name='value']. Then, we have to use the method By.xpath to locate it. To locate an element with a locator name, we have to use the By.name method.

Let us look at the html code of an element with name attribute −

Syntax

WebElement e = driver. findElement(By.name("q")); WebElement m = driver. findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name = 'q']")); WebElement n = driver. findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name='q']"));

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class LocatorName{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();       //implicit wait       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);       //URL launch       driver.get("https://www.google.com/");       // identify element with name       WebElement k = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));       k.sendKeys("Selenium");       //identify element with css       WebElement p = driver.       findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name='q']"));       String st = p.getAttribute("value");       System.out.println("Attribute value: " + st);       //identify element with xpath       WebElement o = driver.       findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']"));       o.clear();       driver.quit();    } }

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