The New Selenium Docs

We're rewriting the Selenium documentation from scratch! Help us out by sending us a patch!

Building

The documentation is built using Sphinx and formatted using reStructuredText.

First make sure you have the necessary dependencies:

pip install sphinx

To clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-docs.git

And finally to build it:

cd selenium-docs
make

This will ensure all that all the right files are built in the correct order with all the necessary dependencies. After building you will find the formatted documentation in the _build directory. Point your browser to the _build/index.html to get the documentation index.

If you want to use virtualenv when working on the docs, you can do that too:

virtualenv selenium-docs
cd selenium-docs
source bin/activate
pip install -e git+https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-docs.git

Formatting

Each line should not exceed 72 characters per line unless they need special treatment because you need to preformat the text or they're code.

Patches

We accept patches and pull requests from GitHub. When opening a pull request, please indicate that you have filled in the Contributor License Agreement, which is necessary to contribute to the Selenium project.