07 Locators - biswajitsundara/Protractor GitHub Wiki

Protractor supports all the locators supported by selenium and some more.

• Protractor recommends to use css, id, name, model, binding primarily
• It supports other locators used in selenium too such as by tagname, xpath etc.
• Locating by xpath is discouraged by Protractor API
• model and binding are two new locators which will be available only in angular pages

const { element } = require("protractor");

describe('Protractor Locator Demo', function() {
    it('should have a title', function() {
      browser.get('http://juliemr.github.io/protractor-demo/');
      expect(browser.getTitle()).toEqual('Super Calculator');
      element(by.model('first')).sendKeys('5');
      element(by.model('second')).sendKeys('3');
      element(by.id('gobutton')).click();
      element(by.css("h2[class='ng-binding'")).getText().then((result)=>{
           console.log(result);
      })
    });
  });

Reference
https://www.protractortest.org/#/locators
http://www.protractortest.org/#/api?view=ProtractorBy