Web Technology: Criteria Table

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The following Web Criteria table is for Web technology.

No.	Criteria Field	Description
1	X-Path	Xpath defines the hierarchy of the tags through which you can reach to a particular element. For example /html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/span/spanNote: Browser generated XPATH does not work well with SVG, PATH elements. One can create custom Xpath using browser generated xpath." we can provide samples
2	Id	Id attribute of a web element can be best way to identify an element if it is present and is going to constant and unique. There are cases however when it is either absent or its value changes every time you access the application in the browser.
3	Name	Name is another attribute of a web element which can be used to identify an element.
4	Link Text	If a HTML page contains a hyperlink element <a href=www.google.com>Search On Google</a>, you can identify this href element by providing complete text ‘Search On Google’ as the Link value.
5	Tag Name	Every HTML element has a tag associated with it. The element can be located using that tag name. For example, textbox has a tag <input>.
6	Class Name	Class name is the css class associated with an HTML element. If there is a div element <div class=’someclass’>MyDiv</div>, you can locate it by giving class name ‘someclass’.
7	CSS Selector	This criterion is useful when an HTML element has multiple associated css classes. Consider an HTML element <div class="btn primary-btn submit"></div>. To identify this div element you can use Css selector as “.btn.primary-btn.submit”