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 :

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Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.