What are elements?

Elements, in the context of web development and testing, are components of a web page that are displayed by the browser and with which a user or automated tool can interact.

They form the structure and content of the page and can include:

• Text fields
• Buttons
• Links
• Images
• Tables
• Checkboxes
• Radio buttons
• Dropdown lists
• DIV blocks (for layout)
• SPAN tags (for inline text)

Each HTML element is defined by a tag and can have attributes (such as id, class, name, src, href) that contain additional information about it. These attributes and the element type are used for identification during manual or automated testing (searching by CSS selectors, XPath, etc.).

In test automation, for example with Selenium WebDriver, elements are represented as objects (e.g., WebElement in Java), with which actions like clicking, entering text, retrieving attributes and text can be performed. Identifying elements on the page is a key step for automating user scenarios.