Mouse and Special Keyboard Action with Selenium

Sometime in testing, we need to do some operations with mouse and keyboard. 
Selenium web driver directly can not handle mouse and keyboard event like double click, right click, pressing key combination in keyboard.

We can handle such type of event with Actions class in selenium webdriver. We have to create object of that class and perform action which we want.

Double Click

Syntax : action.doubleClick(WebElement).build().perform();

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);
  
  // It is google search text box
  WebElement wSearch = driver.findElement(By.id("lst-ib"));
  
  // enter 'test' on search text box and double click on that. So test will select.
  wSearch.sendKeys("test");
  action.doubleClick(wSearch).build().perform();
  Thread.sleep(2000);

ContextClick (Right Click)

Syntax : action.contextClick(WebElement).build().perform();

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);
  
  // It is google search text box
  WebElement wSearch = driver.findElement(By.id("lst-ib"));
  
  // right click on google search test box
  action.contextClick(wSearch).build().perform();
  Thread.sleep(2000);

ClickAndHold

Syntax : action.clickAndHold(WebElement);

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);
  
  // It is google search text box
  WebElement wSearch = driver.findElement(By.id("lst-ib"));
  
  // Click and hold on search text box.
  wSearch.sendKeys("test");
  action.clickAndHold(wSearch).build().perform();
  Thread.sleep(2000);

KeyDown and KeyUP

Syntax : action.keyDown(Key_modifier) and action.keyUp(Key_modifier)

Key Modifier: Keys.SHIFT, Keys.CONTROL, Keys.ALT etc.

If we want to press keyboard key on particular web element then we also need to pass that element with function.

action.keyDown(WebElement, Key_modifier)
action.keyUP(WebElement, Key_modifier)

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);
  
  // It is google Search text box
  WebElement wSearch = driver.findElement(By.id("lst-ib"));
  
  // Enter 'Selenium' in capital letters in search text box
  action.keyDown(wSearch, Keys.SHIFT).sendKeys("selenium").keyUp(wSearch, Keys.SHIFT).build().perform();
  Thread.sleep(2000);

We can also do series of multiple action with Actions class. Please visit below blog for how to do series of multiple action with Actions class.

Series of Multiple actions with Selenium