Support custom locator to locate element

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Support custom locator to locate element

Describe the solution you’d like In SeleniumLibrary, we can use the keyword “Add locator strategy” to register a custom locator approach using a custom keyword that returns a WebElement.

Then we can use it like Click Element | custom:example

Please support this feature, since this one is crucial & widely used.

Thank you so much!

[lynhbn]

Hi @lynhbn Could you give a concrete example custom locator strategy? This would help us to validate that our approach will work for you.

In my project, I’m using custom locator to locate every element rather than using CSS class or element id… I’m using their labels to determine which element is being pointed to.

For example, the page currently is having some textboxes: Customer Name: [____________________] Customer Address: [____________________]

Then I will write a custom locator named “item” to locate the corresponding textboxes using their own labels: Click Element | item:Customer Name Click Element | item:Customer Address This approach works pretty well in many cases & reduce effort for inspecting elements to find their HTML attributes. Moreover, I can also verify their labels to check whether they are correct or not.

SeleniumLibrary supports it. I hope you guys can also support it.

[mkorpela]

This is possible with js extensions: see “Example module keyword for custom selector registering” from https://marketsquare.github.io/robotframework-browser/Browser.html