Get the By locator of an already found WebElement

Question

Is there an elegant way to get the By locator of a Selenium WebElement, that I already found/identified?

To be clear about the question: I want the

Answer 1

Answer is No. You cannot extract a By from a previously found WebElement by default.

That being said - it's possible to implement a custom solution, but Selenium does not offer this out-of-the-box.

Consider the following, on "why"..

By by = By.id("someId");
WebElement e = driver.findElement(by);

you already have the By object, so you wouldn't need to call something like e.getBy()