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What is a Locator

Finding an Element

A locator tells Selenium how to find an element on the page. You pass a By object to driver.findElement() and get back a WebElement you can click or type into.

<form id="login-form">
  <input type="email" id="email" name="email" class="form-input" placeholder="Email">
  <input type="password" id="password" name="password" class="form-input">
  <button type="submit" id="login-btn" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button>
  <a href="/forgot-password">Forgot your password?</a>
</form>

The Eight Strategies

Locator	Example for the form above
`By.id`	`By.id("email")`
`By.name`	`By.name("password")`
`By.className`	`By.className("btn-primary")`
`By.tagName`	`By.tagName("button")`
`By.linkText`	`By.linkText("Forgot your password?")`
`By.partialLinkText`	`By.partialLinkText("Forgot")`
`By.cssSelector`	`By.cssSelector("#login-form .btn-primary")`
`By.xpath`	`By.xpath("//button[text()='Login']")`