How to get the enter username using ID locator in Facebook

Question

I am trying to automate the login process of facebook. Such that it directly takes the user id and password and logs in the account. I am new to selenium so can someone help me doing this? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

To use the ID locator to test the username textbox, you should inspect the webpage and see the ID for the particular element.

Like this:

Now that you know what is the ID for the username's text box, use the following lines of code to test/ provide an input to the text box

driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("username@gmail.com");

This way you can provide an input in the username's textbox.

Hope this helps.