Selenium webdriver : how to find the element in DOM based on custom attribute

Question

How can I find the element in DOM based on a custom attribute?

For example:

DOM attributes are not present in HTML view. Using DOM inspector I can able to identified the Custom attribute is unique.

driver.findElement(By.id("SimpleSearch:dIndicesGrid:1:Value")).getAttribute("_celltype"); 

Here _celltype is custom attribute. This attribute is not visible in HTML view.

Answer 1

You would have to locate the element by xpath.

The following would find any element that has the _celltype attribute with value 'celltype':

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@_celltype='celltype']")) 

If you know what type of element it is you can make it more specific. For example, if you know they are div tags, do:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@_celltype='celltype']"))