Syntax error What are the differences between findElement() and findElements() methods?

What are the differences between findElement() and findElements() methods?

findElement() and findElements() method tries to search an element in DOM.

The differences between them are listed below −

sl.no. findElement()
 findElements()
1
 It returns the first web element which matches with the locator.
 It returns all the web elements which match with the locator.
2
 Syntax − WebElement button = webdriver.findElement(By.name("<<Name value>>"));
 Syntax − List<WebElement> buttons = webdriver.findElements(By.name("<<Name value>>"));
3
 NoSuchElementException is thrown if there are no matching web elements
 Empty list is returned if there are no matching elements.

Example

Using findElements ().

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class RowFindElements {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
      String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/plsql/plsql_basic_syntax.htm";
      driver.get(url);
      driver.manage().window().maximize();
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      // xpath with index appended to get the values from the row 1of table using findElements() ,       which returns a list
      List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td"));
      System.out.println(“The number of values in row 2 is “+ rows.size());
      driver.close();
   }
}

Example

Using findElement ()

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class CssTagname {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",    "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
      String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm";
      driver.get(url);
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(12, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      //Using id tagname attribute combination for css expression
      //and get the element from findElement()
      driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=’search’]")).
      sendKeys("Selenium");
      driver.close();
   }
}
Updated on: 2020-06-10T13:19:00+05:30

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