The getLocation() method

The getLocation method can be executed on all the WebElements. This is used to get the relative position of an element where it is rendered on the web page. This position is calculated relative to the top-left corner of the web page of which the (x, y) coordinates are assumed to be (0, 0). This method will be of use if your test script tries to validate the layout of your web page.

The API syntax of the getLocation() method is as follows:

Point getLocation()

The preceding method obviously doesn't take any input parameters, but the return type is a Point class that contains the (x, y) coordinates of the element.

The following is the code to retrieve the location of the Search box:

WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
System.out.println("Location of the box is: "
        + searchBox.getLocation());

The output for the preceding code is the (x, y) location of the Search box, as shown in the following screenshot:

Location of the box is: (873, 136)