location element method - Selenium Python Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout - Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout - Locating StrategiesThis article revolves around how to use location method in Selenium. location method is used to get location of element in renderable canvas.Syntax - element.location Example - html <input type="text" name="passwd" id="passwd-id" /> To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example, element = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd-id") element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd") element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='passwd-id']") Also, to find multiple elements, we can use - elements = driver.find_elements_by_name("passwd") Now one can get location of this field with element.location How to use location element method in Selenium Python ? Let's try to get location of search field in geeksforgeeks. Program - Python3 # import webdriver from selenium import webdriver # create webdriver object driver = webdriver.Firefox() # get geeksforgeeks.org driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/") # get element element = driver.find_element_by_id("gsc-i-id2") # get location element.location Output- Terminal Output- {'x': 397, 'y': 21} Comment More info N NaveenArora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python-selenium Explore Python FundamentalsPython Introduction 3 min read Input and Output in Python 4 min read Python Variables 5 min read Python Operators 5 min read Python Keywords 2 min read Python Data Types 7 min read Conditional Statements in Python 3 min read Loops in Python - For, While and Nested Loops 6 min read Python Functions 5 min read Recursion in Python 4 min read Python Lambda Functions 5 min read Python Data StructuresPython String 5 min read Python Lists 4 min read Python Tuples 4 min read Python Dictionary 3 min read Python Sets 6 min read Python Arrays 7 min read List Comprehension in Python 4 min read Advanced PythonPython OOP Concepts 11 min read Python Exception Handling 5 min read File Handling in Python 4 min read Python Database Tutorial 4 min read Python MongoDB Tutorial 2 min read Python MySQL 9 min read Python Packages 12 min read Python Modules 7 min read Python DSA Libraries 15 min read List of Python GUI Library and Packages 3 min read Data Science with PythonNumPy Tutorial - Python Library 3 min read Pandas Tutorial 6 min read Matplotlib Tutorial 5 min read Python Seaborn Tutorial 15+ min read StatsModel Library- Tutorial 4 min read Learning Model Building in Scikit-learn 8 min read TensorFlow Tutorial 2 min read PyTorch Tutorial 7 min read Web Development with PythonFlask Tutorial 8 min read Django Tutorial | Learn Django Framework 7 min read Django ORM - Inserting, Updating & Deleting Data 4 min read Templating With Jinja2 in Flask 6 min read Django Templates 7 min read Python | Build a REST API using Flask 3 min read How to Create a basic API using Django Rest Framework ? 4 min read Python PracticePython Quiz 3 min read Python Coding Practice 1 min read Python Interview Questions and Answers 15+ min read Like