Relative Locators in Selenium (Selenium 4 Features)

Relative Locators

Till now we have used many locators like Xpath, Css, Id, Name, Link etc. in total so far we have 8 locators, however with selenium 4, we will be using few more locators.

Selenium 4 provide us a new way to find the WebElement or i would say (Near by WebElement) based on the other Element present in the DOM

Selenium 4 provide the functionality of "Relative Locators" This functionality is added to help us locate elements that are nearby other elements. The Available Relative Locators are:

above

below

toLeftOf

toRightOf

near

Syntax

driver.findElement(withTagName("Element to find").below(By.xpath("Element present in DOM"))).sendKeys("Selenium");

Explanation:-

FindElement method now accepts a new method "withTagName".

"withTagName" function accept the tag Name of a webElement which we are trying to find to perform further actions as sendKeys().

.below is the Relative Locator which internally use JavaScript function getBoundingClientRect() to find the relative elements.

Below Locator takes the input argument as a webElement.

Sample Code

package Demo.Selenium4updates;

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

import static org.openqa.selenium.support.locators.RelativeLocator.withTagName;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public class Selenium4RelativeXpath2rediff {

public static WebDriver driver ;

@Test

public static void test()

{

try {

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

driver= new ChromeDriver();

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.get("http://register.rediff.com/register/register.php?FormName=user_details");

Thread.sleep(3000);

driver.findElement(withTagName("input").below(By.xpath("//*[@id='tblcrtac']/tbody/tr[3]/td[3]/input"))).sendKeys("tgerst");

}

catch(Exception e )

{

e.printStackTrace();

System.out.println("Getting error");

}