Appium- Article #3
🎯Ways To Target an Element
Select an Element on the page📃
In this article, we’re going to learn about how to target an element on the page in different ways. Let’s get started 👇
Here are some useful ways that are used to target an element on the page.
If you don't know how to inspect an element of App then you can read my previous article (Appium- Article #2)
By ID
You can use the id of the target element to select it on the page. For Example:
findElementById("android:id/checkbox");By Xpath
You can define an Xpath for the target element as I explained in the previous lecture. For Example:
findElementByXPath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='Preference']");By Class Name
The class name can also be used when there is no unique attribute defined for the target element. For Example:
findElementByClassName(“android.widget.EditText”);By Elements
All the above ways are targeting the specific element by findElement but when we want to get all the elements on the page that have the same class, id, etc. Then we use the keyword findElements. For Example:
findElementsByClassName(“android.widget.EditText”).get(3);The.get() will hit the specific element with a defined index like there maybe 4 or 5 elements on the page with the same class name (android.widget.EditText) but you need to target the 3rd one then you can use this way to hit that element.
By AndroidUIAutomator for Attribute
You can use the below syntax to select an element by AndroidUIAutomator
findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("attribute(\"value\")");By AndroidUIAutomator for Property
You can use the below syntax to select an element by AndroidUIAutomator
findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().property(value)");Follow my articles, to learn more.
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