Difference between FindElement and FindElements Command in selenium WebDriver?

Interaction with a web page requires a user to locate the web element. Find Element command is used to uniquely identify a (one) web element within the web page. Whereas, Find Elements command is used to uniquely identify the list of web elements within the web page. 

FINDELEMENT() METHOD:

findElement method is used to access a single web element on a page. It returns the first matching element. It throws a NoSuchElementException exception when it fails to find If the element.

Syntax: driver.findelement(By.XPath(“Value of Xpath”));

FINDELEMENTS() METHOD:

findElements method returns the list of all matching elements. The findElement method throws a NoSuchElementException exception when the element is not available on the page. Whereas, the findElements method returns  an empty list when the element is not available or doesn’t exist on the page. It doesn’t throw NoSuchElementException.

Syntax: List link = driver.findelements(By.XPath(“Value of Xpath”));