Find element by attribute

I am trying to find an element with Attribute. Well, I can find elements with Id, tagName, Xpath and all other predefined methods in Selenium. But, I am trying to write a method that specifically returns WebElement, given Attribute name and Value as input.

List<WebElement> elements = webDriver.findElements(By.tagName("Attribute Name"));
for(WebElement element : elements){
	if(element.getText().equals("Value of Particular Attribute")){
		return element;
	}
	else{
		return null;
	}
}

Assuming XPath is not an option, is there any other better ways to do this?

You can easily get this task accomplished with CSS.

The formula is:

element[attribute='attribute-value']

So if you have,

<a href="mysite.com"></a>

You can find it using:

By.cssSelector("a[href='mysite.com']");

this works using any attribute possible.

This page here gives good information on how to formulate effective css selectors, and matching their attributes: http://ddavison.io/css/2014/02/18/effective-css-selectors.html

I do not understand your requirement:

> Assuming XPath is not an option ...

If this was just an incorrect assumption on your part, then XPath is the perfect option!

webDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//element[@attribute='value']"))

Of course you need to replace element, attribute, and value with your actual names. You can also find "any element" by using the wildcard:

webDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@attribute='value']"))

Use CSS selectors instead:

List<WebElement> elements = webDriver.findElements(By.cssSelector("*[attributeName='value']"));

Edit: CSS selectors instead of XPath

As per the documentation:

By.id Locates elements by the ID attribute. This locator uses the CSS selector *[id='$ID'], not document.getElementById. Where id is the ID to search

so you can use the below code to search the DOM element with any given attribute as ID and value

By.id("element[attribute='attribute-value']");