Friday 12 July 2013

How to press Keyboard in selenium webdriver?


In this article we are going to see the functions for keyboard's keypass key events.

To find an element we use
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String"));
if we add send keys as keyboard command, then we can use keyboard event with the element that we found. like
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.ArrowRight);
Here, "string" is the Xpath loaction. And on the element that we have found, keyboard's Arrow left will be pressed.


Like that following keys can be pressed


-For the number pad addition key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Add);
-For  the Alt key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Alt);
-For  the Left arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.ArrowDown);
-For  the left arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.ArrowLeft);
-For  the right arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.ArrowRight);
-For  the up arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.ArrowUp);
-For  the Backspace key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Backspace);
-For  the Cancel keystroke.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Cancel);
-For  the Clear keystroke.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Clear);
-For  the function key COMMAND.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Command);
-For  the Control key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Control);
-For  the number pad decimal separator key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Decimal);
-For  the Delete key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Delete);
-For  the number pad division key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Divide);
-For  the Left arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Down);
-For  the End key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.End);
-For  the Enter key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Enter);
-For  the equal sign key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Equal);
-For  the Escape key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Escape);
-For  the function key F1.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F1);
-For  the function key F10.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F10);
-For  the function key F11.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F11);
-For  the function key F12.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F12);
-For  the function key F2.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F2);
-For  the function key F3.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F3);
-For  the function key F4.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F4);
-For  the function key F5.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F5);
-For  the function key F6.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F6);
-For  the function key F7.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F7);
-For  the function key F8.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F8);
-For  the function key F9.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F9);
-For  the Help keystroke.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Help);
-For  the Home key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Home);
-For  the Insert key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Insert);
-For  the left arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Left);
-For  the Alt key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.LeftAlt);
-For  the Control key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.LeftControl);
-For  the Shift key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.LeftShift);
-For  the function key META.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Meta);
-For  the number pad multiplication key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Multiply);
-For  the NULL keystroke.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Null);
-For  the number pad 0 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad0);
-For  the number pad 1 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad1);
-For  the number pad 2 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad2);
-For  the number pad 3 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad3);
-For  the number pad 4 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad4);
-For  the number pad 5 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad5);
-For  the number pad 6 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad6);
-For  the number pad 7 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad7);
-For  the number pad 8 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad8);
-For  the number pad 9 key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad9);
-For  the Page Down key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.PageDown);
-For  the Page Up key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.PageUp);
-For  the Pause key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Pause);
-For  the Return key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Return);
-For  the right arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Right);
-For  the semi-colon key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Semicolon);
-For  the number pad thousands separator key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Separator);
-For  the Shift key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Shift);
-For  the Space bar key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Space);
-For  the number pad subtraction key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Subtract);
-For  the Tab key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Tab);
-For  the up arrow key.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.Up);

For multiple key press :
First, get the ascii code for the key. For example if we want to press Ctrl-A, it should be 0001. The full list ishere (or here). First assign a character(c) to the value and then convert that as string inside send key.
char c = '\u0001'; // ASCII code 1 for Ctrl-A
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Convert.ToString(c));

...Thanks....:)...

20 comments:

  1. Thanks for putting this online. It has helped me alot. Thank you.

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  2. Giving me a NOsuchElemntexception ?????? for page down

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    1. Hi Shilpa,
      Can you try below code
      //sending pagedown key from keyboard
      driver.findElement(By.id("name")).sendKeys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN);

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  3. i need to click 'SHIFT+3' only using keyboard, how to do that ?

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  4. i need to click 'Control+Shift+Delete' only using keyboard, how to do that ?

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  5. How to open print dialog? (default is Chrome Print Preview)

    I can´t find correct shortcut code for CTRL+p

    Thank you.

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  6. can any one please suggest for the above request

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  7. how to press pagedown on Mac? Thnaks

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  8. In selenium, using send keys function how can we pass SHIFT & F2. Can you please help me.

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  9. In selenium, using send keys function how can we make click action on SHIFT & F2 at a time. Can you please help me.

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  10. Using selenium, how can we write SHIFT + F2

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  11. Using python is it possible to perform SHIFT+F2 in Selenium.

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  12. How to write ALT + S using selenium with c#

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  13. can any help how to use alt+253

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