Lesson #13 -Finding element using the Tag Name attribute

Selenium WebDriver provides another strategy to locate web elements using their "Tag Name", in most cases we will use this strategy when we need to find multiple tags in a web page or when working with tables.

In addition,

• There is no reason to work with this locator when you need a single element.
• If possible, make sure that the selected TAG is unique.
• When the element is not found during the code execution, the method returns error type “NoSuchElementException”.
• The first TAG with this name will be used when executing the code (In a case of duplications).

Code Example

To locate the main title element in my blog, we will now use the "Tag Name" attribute:

<div class="titlewrapper"><h1 class="title"> David Tzemach's Blog </h1></div>

[TestMethod]

public void FindElementByTagName()

{

IWebElement WebElement;

IWebDriver Firefox = new FirefoxDriver();

Firefox.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.machtested.com/");

WebElement = Firefox.FindElement(By.TagName("h1"));

}