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| Provides a mechanism by which to find elements within a document. | |
| </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">[<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bcfsa90a" target="_blank">SerializableAttribute</a>] | |
| <span class="keyword">public</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">By</span></pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="VisualBasicDeclaration"><table><tr><th>Visual Basic</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bcfsa90a" target="_blank">SerializableAttribute</a>> _ | |
| <span class="keyword">Public</span> <span class="keyword">Class</span> <span class="identifier">By</span></pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="ManagedCPlusPlus"><table><tr><th>Visual C++</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve">[<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bcfsa90a" target="_blank">SerializableAttribute</a>] | |
| <span class="keyword">public</span> <span class="keyword">ref class</span> <span class="identifier">By</span></pre></td></tr></table></span></div></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="">It is possible to create your own locating mechanisms for finding documents. | |
| In order to do this,subclass this class and override the protected methods. However, | |
| it is expected that that all subclasses rely on the basic finding mechanisms provided | |
| through static methods of this class. An example of this can be found in OpenQA.Support.ByIdOrName | |
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