How to handle Handle the dynamic element ids in Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am new to Selenium, I have started learning Selenium Web driver, on part of that, i have taken 'Yahoo.com' as application to log in automatically using web driver.I have strange problem, every time the id of the 'username' and 'password' is being changed.

I have tried following code:

WebElement user = driver.findElement(By.id("username"));
WebElement password = driver.findElement(By.id("passwd"));

Everytime these ids are being changed :(

Please help me how to handle this scenario.

Thanks in advance,

Raj

Answer 1

Checked with site yahoo.com site. I have modified my code since the name/ids were different for chrome and firefox. The below code works fine with Chrome and Firefox.

Try the below code:

WebElement user = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@placeholder='Yahoo ID' or @placeholder='Yahoo username']"));
WebElement password = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@placeholder='Password']"));