Selenium Webdriver Scripts:Selenium Webdriver getTagName()

script 1

package selenium_examples;


import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;


public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {


WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
String tagname =  driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfba")).getTagName();
System.out.println(tagname);

}
}

Output:-

button

getTagName() method Gets the tag name of the element.

Above script gets tag name of google search button.


script2

package selenium_examples;


import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;


public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {


WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.yahoo.co.in");
String tagname =  driver.findElement(By.name("p")).getTagName();
System.out.println(tagname);

}
}

Output:-

input

Above script gets tag name of search textbox from yahoo.co.in website.