New Relative Locator methods (Below, RightOf, LeftOf) in Selenium 4 with C Sharp
Welcome to 3rd article in Selenium 4 (new features) with C Sharp series.
What you will Learn:
Relative Locator ‘Below’ method
Relative Locator ‘RightOf’ method
Relative Locator ‘LeftOf’ method
Relative Locator ‘Below’ method
The ‘Below’ method is exactly opposite of ‘Above’ method that we studied in previous article.
Launch the website
https://www.way2automation.com/angularjs-protractor/registeration/#/login
The use case we want to automate is: we want to locate the ‘username description’ text field that is Below the ‘Username *’ label and then write some text inside this field
Inspect text field
Inspect Username *, notice that it is represented by tagname ‘label’
So we can write the below 2 lines using the ‘Below’ method (self-explanatory)
Save and run the script.
Notice below that selenium has successfully located the ‘username description’ text field below the ‘Username *’ label and typed the text inside it
Relative Locator ‘RightOf’ method
Launch
https://www.selenium-tutorial.com/p/selenium-training
Notice above that ‘Enroll in Course for FREE’ is right to ‘Watch Promo’. So we can use RightOf method and click ‘Enroll in Course for FREE’
Inspect ‘Watch Promo’, notice it has a unique id
Inspect ‘Enroll in Course for FREE’ button
So we can write the below script
Save and run the script.
See below. ‘Enroll in Course for FREE’ gets clicked and the registration page opens
Relative Locator ‘LeftOf’ method
LeftOf method is opposite of ‘RightOf’ that we saw above.
We can use this method to click ‘Watch Promo’ that is left of ‘Enroll in Course for FREE’
Let us use the TagName ‘a’ to identify ‘Watch Promo’ element
We can write below 2 lines to accomplish the purpose
Save and run script, notice below that promo video page comes up
So this is how we use the relative locator methods.
Code snippet (Below)
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace RelLoc
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.way2automation.com/angularjs-protractor/registeration/#/login");
Thread.Sleep(2000);
IWebElement lbl = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("label"));
IWebElement elem = driver.FindElement(RelativeBy.WithLocator(By.Id("formly_1_input_username_0")).Below(lbl));
elem.SendKeys("hello");
}
}
}
Code snippet (RightOf)
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace RelLoc
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.selenium-tutorial.com/p/selenium-training");
Thread.Sleep(2000);
IWebElement promoField = driver.FindElement(By.Id("watchpromo"));
driver.FindElement(RelativeBy.WithLocator(By.TagName("button")).RightOf(promoField)).Click();
}
}
}
Code snippet (LeftOf)
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace RelLoc
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.selenium-tutorial.com/p/selenium-training");
Thread.Sleep(2000);
IWebElement enrolField = driver.FindElement(By.Id("enroll-button-top"));
driver.FindElement(RelativeBy.WithLocator(By.TagName("a")).LeftOf(enrolField)).Click();
}
}
}
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