Understanding Element IDs

Cycle's web Steps utilize Element IDs to interact directly with elements (such as images, text, and form fields) on a web page. Web elements are also sometimes known as DOM objects in the field of web development.

In Cycle, an Element ID has two parts:

• A locator type, which identifies the type of locator being used to identify the element on the web page. The following case-sensitive locator types are accepted: id, className, text, xPath, linkText, name, cssSelector, and tag.
• An element name, which uniquely identifies the specific element the Step should interact with.

An Element ID is formatted as "locatorType:elementName", with the locator type and element name being separated by a colon with no spaces, and with quotes around the entire Element ID. In the example below, className is the locator type, and navigation-next is the element name.

While I see element "className:navigation-next" in web browser within 3 seconds