rect element method – Selenium Python

26 July 2024

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Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout – Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout – Locating Strategies

This article revolves around how to use rect method in Selenium. rect method is used to get a dictionary with the size and location of the element.

Syntax –

element.rect

Example –

<input type="text" name="passwd" id="passwd-id" />

To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,

element = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd-id")
element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd")
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='passwd-id']")

Also, to find multiple elements, we can use –

elements = driver.find_elements_by_name("passwd")

Now one can get data of this element with –

element.rect

How to use rect element method in Selenium Python ?

Let’s try to get element and its rect on neveropen using rect method.
Program –

# import webdriver 
from selenium import webdriver 
  
# create webdriver object 
driver = webdriver.Firefox() 
  
# get geeksforgeeks.org 
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/") 
  
# get element  
element = driver.find_element_by_id("gsc-i-id2") 
  
# get rect 
print(element.rect)