What is the syntax for selecting an element in protractor via element name

Question

Is it possible to get an element by its name like you can with jQuery? I'm trying to do the equivalent of the jQuery selector like in jQuery

$('h1')

how is this done with protractor?

I tried

element('h1')

but it doesn't work

Answer 1

There's a couple ways to do this - you can either get it by tagName or by css selector. So any of the following work:

element(by.css('h1')); // works with any css selector
$('h1'); // works with any css selector
element(by.tagName('h1'));

Answer 2

The answer was finally found on github they have a test file that shows all the selectors

element(by.css('h1'));
element(by.css('.my-class'));