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Selenium IDE- Locating Strategies (By Name)

o The name locator type will locate the first element with a matching name attribute.
o For example, name=username.

Let us consider an example on how to use name locator as a target for commands in Selenium IDE.

We will create a login test, so that you could get a better understanding of locating elements through n

o Launch Firefox browser.

o Click on the Selenium icon present on the top right corner on your browser.
o It will launch the default interface of Selenium IDE.
o Click on the command text box present on the Test Script Editor Box.
 o Modify the properties of first command as:
o Command: open
o Target: https://mail.rediff.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
o After execution, this command will load the Rediff login page on your Firefox browser.

For second command to be entered, we need a unique identification element for the Username text b
the IDE to identify the target location.

o Right click on the "Username" text box and select Inspect Element.
 o

o It will launch a window containing all the specific codes involved in the development o
text box.

o Pick element with the matching name attribute that contains the specific name for the "Usernam
 o Modify the properties of second command as:
o Command: click at
o Target: name=login
o After execution, this command will click on the Username text box.

We will use the same element for our next command.

o Modify the properties of third command as:

o Command: type
o Target: name=login
o Value: username
o After execution, this command will type the username in the Username text box

We will now add a command that will click on the "Password" text box. For this command, w
identification for the "Password" field which will help the IDE to identify the target location.

o
o Right click on the "Password" text box and select Inspect Element.

o It will launch a window containing all the specific codes involved in the development
text box.
 o

o Pick element with the matching name attribute that contains the specific name for th
box.

o Modify the properties of fourth command as:

o Command : click at
o Target : name=passwd
o Upon execution this command will click on the Password text box.
We will use the same ID element for our next command which involves typing the password as login cr

o Modify the properties of fifth command as:

o Command : type
o Target : name=passwd
o Value : **********(User Login Password)
o Upon execution this command will type the user password as the login credential.

At last, we need a unique identification element for the Login Submit button which will help the ID
target location.

o Right click on the "Go" button and select Inspect Element.

o

o It will launch a window containing all the specific codes involved in the development o
button.

o
 o Pick element with the matching name attribute that contains the specific name for the "G

o Modify the properties of sixth command as:

o Command : click at
o Target : name=proceed
o After execution, this command will click on the "Go" submit button.

o Click on the "Run Current Test" button present on the tool bar menu of the IDE. It will execute a
commands on the browser and gives you an overall summary of the executed test script.
o The Log pane displays the overall summary of the executed test scripts.
Thus, you can see that we have used name locator as a target for most of our Selenium commands.

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