What are the different Locators supported in Selenium?

1.	What are the different Locators supported in Selenium?
Answer» Selenium WEB driver uses below 8 locators to find the elements on the web page: id – used to SELECT the element with a SPECIFIED @id attribute. name – used to Select the first element with the specified @name attribute. linkText - used to select link /anchor tag element which CONTAINS the matching TEXT PartialLinkText – used to select link (anchor tag) element which contains text matching the specified partial link text. tagName – used to locate the element using its HTML Tag className – used to locate the Element using a class Name cssSelector - used to locate the element using CSS selectors xpath – used to locate the element using an XPath expression.

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Selenium WEB driver uses below 8 locators to find the elements on the web page:

id – used to SELECT the element with a SPECIFIED @id attribute.
name – used to Select the first element with the specified @name attribute.
linkText - used to select link /anchor tag element which CONTAINS the matching TEXT
PartialLinkText – used to select link (anchor tag) element which contains text matching the specified partial link text.
tagName – used to locate the element using its HTML Tag
className – used to locate the Element using a class Name
cssSelector - used to locate the element using CSS selectors
xpath – used to locate the element using an XPath expression.

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