I am trying to find an element with Attribute. Well, I can find elements with Id, tagName, Xpath and all other predefined methods in Selenium. But, I am trying to write a method that specifically returns WebElement, given Attribute name and Value as input.
List<WebElement> elements = webDriver.findElements(By.tagName("Attribute Name"));
for(WebElement element : elements){
if(element.getText().equals("Value of Particular Attribute")){
return element;
}
else{
return null;
}
}
Assuming XPath is not an option, is there any other better ways to do this?
You can easily accomplish this task with CSS.
The formula is:
element[attribute='attribute-value']
So if you have,
<a href="mysite.com"></a>
You can find it using:
By.cssSelector("a[href='mysite.com']");
this works using any attribute possible.
This page here gives good information on how to formulate effective css selectors, and matching their attributes: http://ddavison.io/2014/02/18/effective-css-selectors