Selenium Name Locator

Identifying the WebElement by “NAME” locator value.It takes String as an argument. If an element isn't identified it throws an exception as NoSuchElementException.

Syntax: driver.find_element(By.NAME,"locator_value")

Example: In the below example we will launch the webpage and enter the text in the edit box using NAME locator value.


    Launch the webpage  "http://www.dummypoint.com/seleniumtemplate.html"
    Enter text in the edit box using "NAME" locator and send_keys(“text”) method.
    Wait for 5 sec.
    Close the Web Browser

ClassName_Locator.py

from selenium import webdriver
import time

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome("/Users/admin/Documents/Skill2Lead/Others/drivers/chromedriver.exe")

driver.get("http://www.dummypoint.com/seleniumtemplate.html")
time.sleep(2)

ele = driver.find_element(By.NAME,"entertext")
ele.send_keys("Skill2Lead_Name")

# OR

driver.find_element(By.NAME,"entertext").send_keys("Skill2Lead_Name")

time.sleep(5)
driver.quit()

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