Selenium WebDriver Automation concepts

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Quick Codes -How to highlight element using Selenium WebDriver

This code snippet shows one of the way to highlight an element using JavaScript executor in Selenium WebDriver. Please share your inputs on other ways to highlight an element using Selenium.

package testingqaautomation; 

import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;  
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;  
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;  
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;  
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;  
 
 public class HighlightWithJE {  
      static WebDriver driver; 
      @Test
      public void Testing() throws InterruptedException {  
  // Connect to the firefox driver server 
  driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
  //maximise the browser   
  driver.manage().window().maximize();   
  //Navigate to the application, change url to a valid url
  driver.navigate().to("https://www.seleniumbites.blogspot.com");  
  //find element to highlight, select a valid element
  WebElement linkElem = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Gmail"));  
  //create instance of javascript executor
  JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; 
  //highlight the element to green color and wait
  //for 3 sec and then click the element
  js.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('style','border: solid 8px green')", linkElem);   
  Thread.sleep(3000);  
  js.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('style', arguments[1]);", linkElem, "");  
  linkElem.click();            
      } 
}