Use Actions class to perform keyboard event in selenium

This post was most recently updated on June 14th, 2019

Code to perform key press events , mouse left right operations using action class.

Functions for keyboard	Uses
keyDown(java.lang.CharSequence key)	To simulate key down event on current location.
keyDown(WebElement target, java.lang.CharSequence key)	To simulate key down event on target element.
keyUp(java.lang.CharSequence key)	To simulate key up event on current location.
keyUp(WebElement target, java.lang.CharSequence key)	To simulate key up event on target element.
sendKeys(WebElement target, java.lang.CharSequence… keys)	To simulate send keys on targeted element.
sendKeys(java.lang.CharSequence… keys)	To simulate send keys on current location.

Code snippet: For key press simulation using different functions available in Action class.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class SeleniumMain {

	public static void main(String[] args)  {
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/chromedriver.exe");
		WebDriver driver;
		ChromeOptions cOptions=new ChromeOptions();
		cOptions.addArguments("--start-maximized");
		driver=new ChromeDriver(cOptions);
		driver.get("https://www.youidraw.com/apps/painter/");
		//create object of Actions class
		Actions builder=new Actions(driver);		

		WebElement text=driver.findElement(By.id("text"));
		WebElement canvas=driver.findElement(By.id("catch"));
		
		// Performed left click using Keys on web element
		Action leftClickOnTextIcon=builder.sendKeys(text, Keys.LEFT).build();
		leftClickOnTextIcon.perform();
		
//Method1:		
		// Performed left click using Keys on web element
		Action leftClickOnCanvas =builder.sendKeys(canvas, Keys.LEFT).build();
		leftClickOnCanvas.perform();
		//Use of keyDown and keyUp
		Action enterDataOnTextCanvas=builder.keyDown(Keys.SHIFT).sendKeys("user").keyUp(Keys.SHIFT).build();
		enterDataOnTextCanvas.perform();

//Method2:Comment Method1
	Action enterDataOnTextCanvas2= builder.keyDown(Keys.SHIFT).sendKeys(canvas,"user").keyUp(Keys.SHIFT).build(); 
	enterDataOnTextCanvas2.perform();
		
	//commented to see result		
		//driver.quit();	
	}
}

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class SeleniumMain {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/chromedriver.exe");

WebDriver driver;

ChromeOptions cOptions=new ChromeOptions();

cOptions.addArguments("--start-maximized");

driver=new ChromeDriver(cOptions);

driver.get("https://www.youidraw.com/apps/painter/");

//create object of Actions class

Actions builder=new Actions(driver);

WebElement text=driver.findElement(By.id("text"));

WebElement canvas=driver.findElement(By.id("catch"));

// Performed left click using Keys on web element

Action leftClickOnTextIcon=builder.sendKeys(text, Keys.LEFT).build();

leftClickOnTextIcon.perform();

//Method1:

// Performed left click using Keys on web element

Action leftClickOnCanvas =builder.sendKeys(canvas, Keys.LEFT).build();

leftClickOnCanvas.perform();

//Use of keyDown and keyUp

Action enterDataOnTextCanvas=builder.keyDown(Keys.SHIFT).sendKeys("user").keyUp(Keys.SHIFT).build();

enterDataOnTextCanvas.perform();

//Method2:Comment Method1

Action enterDataOnTextCanvas2= builder.keyDown(Keys.SHIFT).sendKeys(canvas,"user").keyUp(Keys.SHIFT).build();

enterDataOnTextCanvas2.perform();

//commented to see result

//driver.quit();

}

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