Commonly used basic commands in Selenium

Below are some basic commands of selenium which you can try and use while writing your script for web application.

1.driver.get("http://www.google.com"); To open an application
2.driver.findElement(By.id("passwd-id")); Finding Element using Id
3.driver.findElement(By.name("passwd")); Finding Element using Name
4.driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=’passwd-id’]")); Finding Element using Xpath 5.element.sendKeys("some text"); To type some data
6.element.clear(); clear thecontents of a text field or textarea
7.driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select")); Selecting the value
8.select.findElements(By.tagName("option")); Selecting the value
9.select.deselectAll(); This will deselect all OPTIONs from the first SELECT on the page 10.select.selectByVisibleText("Testing Masters"); select the OPTION withthe displayed text of "Testing Masters"
11.findElement(By.id("submit")).click(); To click on Any button/Link
12.driver.switchTo().window("windowName"); Moving from one window to another window 13.driver.switchTo().frame("frameName"); swing from frame to frame (or into iframes)
14.driver.switchTo().frame("frameName.0.child"); to access subframes by separating the path with a dot, and you can specify the frame by itsindex too.
15.driver.switchTo().alert(); Handling Alerts
16.driver.navigate().to("http://www.example.com"); To Navigate Paeticular URL
17.driver.navigate().forward(); To Navigate Forward
18.driver.navigate().back(); To Navigate Backword
19.driver.close(); Closes the current window
20.driver.quit(); Quits the driver and closes every associated window.
21.driver.switch_to_alert(); Switches focus to an alert on the page.
22.driver.refresh(); Refreshes the current page.
23.webdriver.manage().window().setPosition(new Point(-2000, 0); to minimize browser window