Using multiple criteria to find a WebElement in Selenium

Question

I am using Selenium to test a website, does this work if I find and element by more than one criteria? for example :

 driverChrome.findElements(By.tagName("input").id("id_Start"));

or

driverChrome.findElements(By.tagName("input").id("id_Start").className("blabla"));

I too have wondered this and find it daft that chaining isn't supported. — Dan Atkinson, Oct 21 '15 at 11:56

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 08 '20 at 11:57

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No it does not. You cannot concatenate/add selectors like that. This is not valid anyway. However, you can write the selectors such a way that will cover all the scenarios and use that with findElements()

By byXpath = By.xpath("//input[(@id='id_Start') and (@class = 'blabla')]")
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(byXpath);

This should return you a list of elements with input tags having class name blabla and having id id_Start

edited Feb 08 '20 at 11:57

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answered May 22 '15 at 18:29

Saifur

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is "//input[(@id='id_Start') and (@class = 'blabla')]" a regular expression ? – May 22 '15 at 19:15
It's just the way of using multiple condition. not regex – Saifur May 22 '15 at 19:32

score 14 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 17 '19 at 01:52

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To combine By statements, use ByChained:

driverChrome.findElements(
    new ByChained(
        By.tagName("input"),
        By.id("id_Start"),
        By.className("blabla")
    )
)

However if the criteria refer to the same element, see @Saifur's answer.

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answered Jun 11 '18 at 20:53

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How is this not the accepted answer? If the tag, ID, and class all refer to the same element, then this does allow one to use multiple selectors. I prefer this over using an XPath (or something similar) since it's more concise and clearly describes the element I'm looking for. – coolDude Sep 07 '21 at 22:08

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '15 at 06:50

CSS Selectors would be perfect in this scenario.

Your example would

By.css("input#id_start.blabla")

There are lots of information if you search for CSS selectors. Also, when dealing with classes, CSS is easier than XPath because Xpath treats class as a literal string, where as CSS treats it as a space delimited collection

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 25 '21 at 18:18

Based @George's repply, the same code for C# :

//reference
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.PageObjects;

...

int allElements = _driver.FindElements(new ByChained(
                    By.CssSelector(".sc-pAyMl.cnszJw"),
                    By.Id("base-field")
                    )).Count();

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