The getTagName() method

The getTagName method can be called from all the WebElements. This will return the HTML tag name of the WebElement. For example, in the following HTML code, the button is the tag name of the HTML element:

<button id="gbqfba" class="gbqfba" name="btnK" aria-label="Google Search">

In the preceding code, the button is the tag name of the HTML element.

The API syntax for the getTagName() method is as follows:

java.lang.String getTagName()

The return type of the preceding method is String, and it returns the tag name of the target element.

The following is the code that returns the tag name of the Search button:

@Test
public void elementGetTagNameExample() {
    WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.className("search-button"));
    System.out.println("Html tag of the button is: "
            + searchButton.getTagName());
}

The preceding code uses the getTagName() method to get the tag name of the Search button element. The output of the code is as expected:

Html tag of the button is: button