CSS Location Strategy

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS locator is a flexible and widely used location strategy to locate elements on the web page uniquely. CSS selectors are a powerful way to navigate the DOM and can be more flexible and efficient than other locating strategies like XPath.

DOM stands for Document Object Model. It represents the structure of a document as a tree of objects, allowing programs to manipulate the structure, style, and content of web documents. DOM allows you to use HTML tag names associated with the objects.

If the element has an ID, then we can locate the element using

By.cssSelector(“#username”)

Selects elements by attribute value

By.cssSelector(“input[type=’submit’]”)

Advantages of Using CSS Selectors

• CSS selectors are generally faster than XPath.
• They provide various options to select elements based on various attributes.
• CSS selectors are often more concise and readable.

CSS is widely used to locate an element on a web page and provides a good balance between structures and attributes.