What Is the Webelement in Selenium

What is a Selenium WebElement? A WebElement, in this case, a Selenium WebElement is essentially an HTML element on a website. HTML documents consist of HTML elements. Each HTML element consists of a start tag and an end tag. The content lies between the tags.

What is WebElement?

A WebElement represents an HTML element. We see the elements as buttons, text, links, images, etc. on a web page. Therefore, the WebElement Method category can perform an action on everything visible on a web page.

Is WebElement a class?

Selenium Webdriver represents all the HTML elements as WebElements. This class provides a mechanism to represent them as objects & perform various actions on the related elements. Typically, the findElement method in remoteDriver returns an object of class webElement.

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

Environmental Science & Climate Journalist

James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.

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