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| Gets a mechanism to find elements by their CSS class. | |
| </div><p /><b>Namespace:</b> <a href="N_OpenQA_Selenium.htm">OpenQA.Selenium</a><br /><b>Assembly:</b> <span sdata="assembly">WebDriver</span> (in WebDriver.dll) Version: 2.21.0.0 (2.21.0.0)<h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(syntaxToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(syntaxToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="syntaxToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Syntax</span></h1><div id="syntaxSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div id="syntaxCodeBlocks" class="code"><span codeLanguage="CSharp"><table><tr><th>C#</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">public</span> <span class="keyword">static</span> <a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_By.htm">By</a> <span class="identifier">ClassName</span>( | |
| <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">string</a> <span class="parameter">classNameToFind</span> | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="VisualBasicDeclaration"><table><tr><th>Visual Basic</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">Public</span> <span class="keyword">Shared</span> <span class="keyword">Function</span> <span class="identifier">ClassName</span> ( _ | |
| <span class="parameter">classNameToFind</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a> _ | |
| ) <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_By.htm">By</a></pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="ManagedCPlusPlus"><table><tr><th>Visual C++</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">public</span>: | |
| <span class="keyword">static</span> <a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_By.htm">By</a>^ <span class="identifier">ClassName</span>( | |
| <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a>^ <span class="parameter">classNameToFind</span> | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span></div><div id="parameters"><h4 class="subHeading">Parameters</h4><dl paramName="classNameToFind"><dt><span class="parameter">classNameToFind</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">System<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>String</a><br />The CSS class to find.</dd></dl></div><h4 class="subHeading">Return Value</h4>A <a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_By.htm">By</a> object the driver can use to find the elements.</div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(remarksToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(remarksToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="remarksToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Remarks</span></h1><div id="remarksSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">If an element has many classes then this will match against each of them. | |
| For example if the value is "one two onone", then the following values for the | |
| className parameter will match: "one" and "two".</div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(seeAlsoToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(seeAlsoToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="seeAlsoToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />See Also</span></h1><div id="seeAlsoSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="T_OpenQA_Selenium_By.htm">By Class</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="N_OpenQA_Selenium.htm">OpenQA.Selenium Namespace</a></div></div></div><div id="footer"><div class="footerLine"><img width="100%" height="3px" src="../icons/footer.gif" alt="Footer image" title="Footer image" /></div><A NAME="feedback"></A><span id="fb" class="feedbackcss"></span><p />Send comments on this topic to | |
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