Locating by attributes

This is probably the most common method of locating elements and is the catch-all default when no recognized locator type is used. With this strategy, the first element with the id attribute value matching the location will be used. If no element has a matching id attribute, then the first element with a name attribute matching the location will be used.

For instance, your page source could have id and name attributes as follows:

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   id="loginForm">
    name="username" type="text" />
    name="password" type="password" />
    name="continue" type="submit" value="Login" />
  
 

The following locator strategies would return the elements from the HTML snippet above indicated by line number:

• identifier=loginForm (3)
• identifier=password (5)
• identifier=continue (6)
• continue (6)

Since the identifier type of locator is the default, the identifier= in the first three examples above is not necessary.