How to get findElementById method?

Question

I loaded Selenium latest version 3.3.1 to my system through maven dependencies. While trying to code, I couldn\'t get the method findElementById(). Instead, I am ge

Answer 1

You should use the method from the class By:

driver.findElement(By.id("element id")) 

Answer 2

It depends on language you are using for your automation:

For Java:

driver().findElement(By.id("locator")).click();

For Python:

driverInstance.find_element_by_id("Id Locator").click()

Answer 3

add following dependency to maven, do maven clean and maven build

• Use RemoteWebDriver type while instantiating driver like
  "RemoteWebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver()" as RemoteWebDriver class has findElementById() method

    < dependency>
    < groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    < artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
    < version>3.3.1</version>
   </dependency>