Find Element & Find Elements | Selenium Basic To Advance | Selenium Tutorial For Beginners | Hindi

Why do you need Find Element/s command?
Interaction with a web page requires a user to locate the web element. Find Element command is used to uniquely identify a (one) web element within the web page. Whereas, Find Elements command is used to uniquely identify the list of web elements within the web page. There are multiple ways to uniquely identify a web element within the web page such as ID, Name, Class Name, Link Text, Partial Link Text,
Selenium Find Element command takes in the By object as the parameter and returns an object of type list WebElement in Selenium. By object in turn can be used with various locator strategies such as find element by ID Selenium, Name, Class Name, XPATH, etc. Below is the syntax of the FindElement command in the Selenium web driver.

WebElement elementName = driver.findElement(By.LocatorStrategy("LocatorValue"));

Selenium is a free (open-source) automated testing framework used to validate web applications across different browsers and platforms. You can use multiple programming languages like Java, C#, Python etc to create Selenium Test Scripts. Testing done using the Selenium testing tool is usually referred to as Selenium Testing.

Selenium Software is not just a single tool but a suite of software, each piece catering to different Selenium QA testing needs of an organization. Here is the list of tools
Selenium Remote Control (RC)
WebDriver
Selenium Grid

Selenium Integrated Development Environment