Get Position/Coordinates of Web Element

To get the position or coordinates of a web element using Selenium in Java, call getLocation() on the Web Element object.

The following is a simple code snippet to get the position/coordinates of web element element.

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element.getLocation()

getLocation() returns a Point object which represents the position of calling web element, from the left (X-coordinate) and top (Y-coordinate) of the rendered web page respectively.

Example

In the following program, we write Selenium Java code to visit WikiPedia Main Page, find the web element with the id "Welcome_to_Wikipedia", then get the location/position/coordinates of this web element.

Java Program

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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Point;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class MyAppTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");  
    	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    	
        driver.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page");
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("Welcome_to_Wikipedia"));
        
        Point location = element.getLocation();
        System.out.println("X, Y - coordinates : " + location);	
        
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Output

X, Y - coordinates : (565, 652)

We can also access the individual X-coordinate an Y-coordinate via Point object’s getX() and getY() methods.

We shall modify the program, to print the X-coordinate and Y-coordinate separately.

Java Program

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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Point;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class MyAppTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");  
    	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    	
        driver.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page");
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("Welcome_to_Wikipedia"));
        
        Point location = element.getLocation();
        System.out.println("X : " + location.getX());
        System.out.println("Y : " + location.getY());
        
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Output

X : 565
Y : 652