How to use driver.find_element_by_class_name() method in Selenium?
Let’s try to practically implement this method and get a element instance for
“https://www.w3wiki.org/”
. Let’s try to grab search form input using its class name “gsc-input”. Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_element_by_class_name method –
Python3
# Python program to demonstrate# selenium# import webdriverfrom selenium import webdriver# create webdriver objectdriver = webdriver.Firefox()# enter keyword to searchkeyword = "w3wiki"# get w3wiki.orgdriver.get("https://www.w3wiki.org/")# get element element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("gsc-input")# print complete elementprint(element) |
Now run using –
Python run.py
First, it will open firefox window with w3wiki, and then select the element and print it on terminal as show below.
Browser Output –
Terminal Output –
find_element_by_class_name() driver method – Selenium Python
Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out – Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as w3wiki, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task. This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_element_by_class_name() is discussed in this article.
Syntax –
driver.find_element_by_class_name("class_of_element")
Example –
For instance, consider this page source:
html
<html> <body> <p class="content">Site content goes here.</p></body><html> |
Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using –
content = driver.find_element_by_class_name('content')