Selenium Find Element using By.Name() Example

Overview

In this tutorial, we will learn to find element on a web page using the attribute Name of the page element. We can use the By.name() method to locate the element with name attribute.

We will test the TestLink Login page in this example. TestLink is an open-source Testcase Management application.

Inspect Elements

We can identify the elements using the name attribute. The most easiest way is to use respective browser Developer tools to find out the different attributes of the element on the web page. However we can use, View source option of the web page as well.

To inspect elements using Firefox Web Developer Tools, follow this link:

https://www.testingdocs.com/inspect-elements-using-firefox-web-developer-tools/

We can see that the HTML code for the Login name text box in the form is:

The name of the element is defined as name=“tl_login”. The input parameter for the method is By.name() is tl_login. Note that for this element both the id and the name attributes are same.

For Example,

By.name(“tl_login”)

Environment and Tools

The environment and the tools used in this example:

JDK
Maven build tool
Selenium Webdriver
Eclipse IDE
Firefox Web browser Tools
Windows 10

Code Listing

The complete code listing for the test is as follows:

package com.testingdocs.tests;


import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

// Selenium Tutorials - www.TestingDocs.com


public class FindByNameExampleTest {
 public WebDriver driver;


 @BeforeClass
 public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException {
 DesiredCapabilities dCaps = new DesiredCapabilities();
 dCaps.setBrowserName("chrome");
 driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new 
URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), dCaps);
 }

 @Test
 public void testNameLocator() throws InterruptedException {
 driver.navigate()
.to("http://localhost/testlink/login.php");
 driver.manage().window().maximize();
 try {
 driver.findElement(By.name("tl_login"))
.sendKeys("Hello");
 driver.manage().timeouts()
.implicitlyWait(45, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 System.out.println("Typed Hello
 in Login Username...");
 } catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }
 }

 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown() {
 if (driver != null) {
 driver.quit();
 }
 }
}

In this example, we have used TestLink Login page on localhost. The username

driver.findElement(By.name(“tl_login”)).sendKeys(“Hello”);

By.Name attribute Selenium Test