Locators in WebDriver

By methods	Description of the methods
By.id(String id)	Finds element based on the value of the "id" attribute.
By.name(String name)	Finds element based on the value of the "name" attribute.
By.linkText(String linkText)	Finds element based on the text inside Tag.
By.partialLinkText(String linkText)	Finds element based on the partial text inside Tag.
By.className(String className)	Finds elements based on the value of the "class" attribute.
By.cssSelector(String selector)	Finds element or elements via the driver's underlying W3 Selector engine.
By.xpath(String xpathExpression)	Finds element or elements based on the absolute xpath, relative xpath and position xpath.
By.tagName(String name)	Finds elements based on the Tag.

<input class="userclass" id="user" name="prefix between suffix" type="text" /> Username:
<input class="passclass" id="pass" name="beginning middle end" type="text" /> Password:
<a href="http://www.google.co.in/">Google</a> Google

xpath	css
//*[@id = 'user'] //*[@id = 'pass']	*[id = 'user'] *[id = 'pass']
//input[1] //input[2] //input[contains(@class, 'class')][1] //input[contains(@class, 'class')][2]	div:first-child div:last-child div:nth-child(3) div input div > input div + input label + input
//input[@id = 'user'] //input[@id = 'pass']	input[id = 'user'] input[id = 'pass']
//input[starts-with(@name, 'prefix')] //input[starts-with(@name, 'beginning')]	input[name ^= 'prefix'] input[name ^= 'beginning']
//input[ends-with(@name, 'suffix')] //input[ends-with(@name, 'end')]	input[name $= 'suffix'] input[name $= 'end']
//input[contains(@name, 'between')] //input[contains(@name, 'middle')]	input[name *= 'between'] input[name *= 'middle']
//a[text() = 'Google']	a[href*='google']
//input[@id='user' and @class='userclass'] //input[@id='pass' and @class='passclass']	input[id='user'][class='userclass'] input[id='pass'][class='passclass']
//input[@id='user' or @class='userclass'] //input[@id='pass' or @class='passclass']	#user #pass input#user input#pass .userclass .passclass input.userclass input.passclass