I need to perform a key press combination on Selenium Chrome driver.
The action is not sending test to text box or clicking on a button.
I am actually not interested in sending keys to any specific web element.
For example, I would like to perform command+R (reload on Mac OS).
(Reloading is just an example for the explanation, not my ultimate goal)
My code is the following:
public static void keyPressCombnaiton() {
Actions action = new Actions(browser);
action.keyDown(Keys.COMMAND)
.sendKeys("r")
.keyUp(Keys.COMMAND)
.build()
.perform();
}
I have spend hours searching and trying only got no luck.
Any help is appreciated!
The WebDriver spec is element-focussed, and doesn't define any method to send keys to the window, the screen, to browser chrome - only to elements.
Use of the Selenium Actions class for Cmd-R works on my Mac in Firefox (45), but only when run in the foreground - and seemingly not at all in Chrome. Presumably this is down to differences in the implementations of the remote Keyboard implementation, which it's probably best not to rely upon.
The most efficient way and non-platform-specific way to request a page reload is using JavaScript:
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("document.location.reload(true)");
However, JavaScript doesn't let you "just send keys".
The only other way is via the Java AWT Robot class:
Robot robot = new java.awt.Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_META); // See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15419192/954442
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_R);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_R);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_META);
This "blindly" sends key combinations to whichever windows / components are on screen at the time, so if your browser window has been hidden or minimised, this will not work.
I'm trying to perform an action on a button it's never done.
final Actions action = new Actions(mDriver);
final WebElement myCart = mDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("path to my span"]"));
final WebElement myButton = mDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("path to my button"));
action.moveToElement(myCart).build().perform();
action.moveToElement(myButton).click().build().perform();
This code works perfectly with firefox but not with phantom JS
I found some issue here How to handle Mouseover in Selenium 2 API or How to perform mouseover function in Selenium WebDriver using Java? but nothing work with phantom.
Is there any known workaround for this ?
Thanks!
I had similar issues when I used GhostDriver and PhantomJS around a year ago (FYI article). Actually I had problems with IE_Driver and Chrome_Driver too, mostly related with visibility of elements outside the screen_frame (page must be scrolled down).
One of most serious issues was the upload_window and handle it through already-mentioned. I wasn't able to achieve it doh. But my workaround was to switch/cast the driver on these problematic places and after they complete/handle the operation - switch it back to GhostDriver. Even by doing so, the execution speed was impressive.
Hope this helps - even late given.
Update:
find IWebElement to process
set WebDriver from GhostDriver to FirefoxDriver
process the IWebElement item with current WebDriver as FirefoxDriver
verify expected result from processing the IWebElement item
set back WebDriver from FirefoxDriver to GhostDriver
continue workflow
As far as I remember my Test framework implementation - a BaseTest class takes care of initialization of used WebDriver and ISelenium objects. So for your more specific case, you can try this:
// Create a new instance of the Ghost driver
// Notice that the remainder of the code relies on the interface,
// not the implementation.
WebDriver driver = new GhostDriver();
//do stuff until new driver is needed
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
//do stuff with new driver
//'cast' back after required operations have been completed and verified
driver = new GhostDriver();
I have been trying to test a tooltip in my web page using Selenium WebDriver with Firefox 19.
I'm basically trying to use mouse actions to hover over the element that has the tooltip attached in order to test that the tooltip is displayed and to hover over another element to test that the tooltip is hidden.
The first operation works fine but when hovering over another element the tooltip remains visible. This issue does not occur when testing the webpage manually.
Has anyone else encountered this issue before? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
It seems that the Advanced Actions API relies on native events, which are disabled in the Linux version of Firefox by default. Therefore, they must be enabled in the WebDriver instance explicitly.
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
//explicitly enable native events(this is mandatory on Linux system, since they
//are not enabled by default
profile.setEnableNativeEvents(true);
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
Also, in my case I needed to upgrade the WebDriver to version 2.31 since the hover(moveToElement) action did not work properly on 2.30 even with native events explicitly enabled. Tested this with version 2.31 of WebDriver and versions 17 and 19 of Firefox on Linux.
For more information you may check this link:
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/AdvancedUserInteractions#Native_events_versus_synthetic_events
I also run into this problem with Selenium 2.30 on Firefox 19. It works fine on FF 18.2.
This is a simple but handy method with a javascript call that will send a mouseout() event to whichever element you specify (I prefer to pass them using By but you can change this to whatever you like.
I had a problem with Chrome where tooltips were refusing to close once clicked and obscured other nearby click events causing them to fail. This method saved the day in that case. Hope it helps someone else!
/**
* We need this to close help text after selenium clicks
* (otherwise they hang around and block other events)
*
* #param by
* #throws Exception
*/
public void javascript_mouseout(By by) throws Exception {
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
try {
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
WebElement element = driver.findElement(by);
js.executeScript("$(arguments[0]).mouseout();", element);
return;
} catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
// just catch and continue
} catch (NoSuchElementException e1) {
// just catch and continue
}
}
}
You can call it after any sort of click() event like this:
By by_analysesButton = By.cssSelector("[data-section='Analyses']");
javascript_mouseout(by_analysesButton);
Fyi, mine tries 10x via the for loop with the try/catches because our app has a tendency with Chrome towards stale element exceptions, so if you don't have this problem the method can be pared down considerably.
I had the same problem.
At first I used the method moveToElement() without perform().
Then I added Firefox Profile with setEnableNativeEvents, but it still didn't work for me.
Finally I solved this issue in this way (simply by adding perform():
WebElement username = driver.findElement(By.id("username"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(username).perform();
WebElement tooltip = driver.findElement(By.id("tooltip"));
tooltip.isDisplayed();
and it works fine.
I run my selenium rc test in Eclipse with TestNG. I have a link which tries to open a new browser page. How can I select this new page to operate in? I use this code:
selenium.selectWindow("name=NewPage");
however it says page not found. I also try to define page ids or titles with this code:
String[] wins = selenium.getAllWindowIds();
for (String s : wins)
System.out.println("win: " + s);
It does not define my new opened window:
win: MainPage
win:
If use selenium.getAllWindowNames() I get win: selenium_main_app_window
win: selenium_blank65815.
I write this code selenium.selectWindow("name=blank99157"); but get the error - ERROR: Window does not exist. If this looks like a Selenium bug, make sure to read http://seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.html#alerts-popups-and-multiple-windows for potential workarounds.
The window obviously has no name, so you can't select it by name.
If the window is opened via JavaScript and you can change the script, try changing window.open("someUrl"); to window.open("someUrl", "someName");, you'll be then able to select the window by the set name. More information on the MDN doc for window.open().
Selenium RC doesn't support <a href="someUrl" target="_blank"> links (which open the link in a new window). Therefore, if the window is opened by a link of this type, you have to find this <a> element, get the href attribute and call
selenium.openWindow(theFoundUrl, "theNewWindow");
selenium.selectWindow("id=theNewWindow");
If it is opened via JavaScript before or during the onload event, you'll need to call
selenium.openWindow("", "theNewWindow");
selenium.selectWindow("id=theNewWindow");
More information on this in the bug SEL-339 or in the openWindow() and selectWindow() JavaDocs.
If you have only two windows / want to open the newest one, you can try
selenium.selectPopup()
That is, obviously, the easiest way, because it selects the first non-top window. Therefore, it's only useful when you want to select the newest popup.
If the new window has a unique title, you can do
selenium.selectPopup("Title of the window");
or selenium.selectWindow("title=Title of the window");
Otherwise, you must iterate over selenium.getAllWindowNames() to get the right name (Selenium creates names for windows without one). However, you can't hardcode that name into your testcase, because it will change every time, so you'll need to work out some dynamic logic for this.
You won't like this: Go for WebDriver. It should be far more resistant to such problems.
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
WebElement inputhandler = driver.findelement(By.linktext("whatever here"));
inputhandler.click();
String parentHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
Set<String> PopHandle = driver.getWindowHandles();
Iterator<String> it = PopHandle.iterator();
String ChildHandle = "";
while(it.hasNext())
{
if (it.next() != parentHandle)
{
ChildHandle = it.next().toString();
// because the new window will be the last one opened
}
}
driver.switchTo().window(ChildHandle);
WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
wait1.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("something on page")));
// do whatever you want to do in the page here
driver.close();
driver.switchTo().window(parentHandle);
You might not be using the correct window ID.
Check out this link. You might find your answer here.
Let me know you this helps.
Try selenium.getAllWindowNames(), selenium.getAllWindowTitles()..one of them will work for sure.
I have trawled the web and the WebDriver API. I don't see a way to open new tabs using WebDriver/Selenium2.0 .
Can someone please confirm if I am right?
Thanks,
Chris.
P.S: The current alternative I see is to either load different urls in the same window or open new windows.
There is totally a cross-browser way to do this using webdriver, those who say you can not are just too lazy. First, you need to use WebDriver to inject and anchor tag into the page that opens the tab you want. Here's how I do it (note: driver is a WebDriver instance):
/**
* Executes a script on an element
* #note Really should only be used when the web driver is sucking at exposing
* functionality natively
* #param script The script to execute
* #param element The target of the script, referenced as arguments[0]
*/
public void trigger(String script, WebElement element) {
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(script, element);
}
/** Executes a script
* #note Really should only be used when the web driver is sucking at exposing
* functionality natively
* #param script The script to execute
*/
public Object trigger(String script) {
return ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(script);
}
/**
* Opens a new tab for the given URL
* #param url The URL to
* #throws JavaScriptException If unable to open tab
*/
public void openTab(String url) {
String script = "var d=document,a=d.createElement('a');a.target='_blank';a.href='%s';a.innerHTML='.';d.body.appendChild(a);return a";
Object element = trigger(String.format(script, url));
if (element instanceof WebElement) {
WebElement anchor = (WebElement) element; anchor.click();
trigger("var a=arguments[0];a.parentNode.removeChild(a);", anchor);
} else {
throw new JavaScriptException(element, "Unable to open tab", 1);
}
}
Next, you need to tell webdriver to switch its current window handle to the new tab. Here's how I do that:
/**
* Switches to the non-current window
*/
public void switchWindow() throws NoSuchWindowException, NoSuchWindowException {
Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles();
String current = driver.getWindowHandle();
handles.remove(current);
String newTab = handles.iterator().next();
locator.window(newTab);
}
After this is done, you may then interact with elements in the new page context using the same WebDriver instance. Once you are done with that tab, you can always return back to the default window context by using a similar mechanism to the switchWindow function above. I'll leave that as an exercise for you to figure out.
The Selenium WebDriver API does not support managing tabs within the browser at present.
var windowHandles = webDriver.WindowHandles;
var script = string.Format("window.open('{0}', '_blank');", url);
scriptExecutor.ExecuteScript(script);
var newWindowHandles = webDriver.WindowHandles;
var openedWindowHandle = newWindowHandles.Except(windowHandles).Single();
webDriver.SwitchTo().Window(openedWindowHandle);
I had the same issue and found an answer. Give a try.
Robot r = new Robot();
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_T);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_T);
It will open a new tab you can perform your actions in the new tab.
Though there is no API for opening a new tab, you can just create a new instance of WebDriver calling it something slightly different and passing the URL you want in the new tab. Once you have done all you need to do, close that tab and make the new driver NULL so that it does not interfere with the original instance of Webdriver. If you need both tabs open, then ensure you refer to the appropriate instance of WebDriver. Used this for Sitecore CMS automation and it worked.
Thanks for the great idea #Jonathan Azoff !
Here's how I did it in Ruby:
def open_new_window(url)
a = #driver.execute_script("var d=document,a=d.createElement('a');a.target='_blank';a.href=arguments[0];a.innerHTML='.';d.body.appendChild(a);return a", url)
a.click
#driver.switch_to.window(#driver.window_handles.last)
end
There's no way we can create new TAB or handle tabs using web driver / selenium 2.0
You can open a new window instead.
Hey #Paul and who ever is having issue opening a second tab in python. Here is the solution
I'm not sure if this is a bug within the webdriver or because it isn't compatible yet with mutlitab but it is definitely acting wrong with it and I will show how to fix it.
Issue:
well I see more than one issue.
First issue has to do that when you open a 2nd tab you can only see one handle instead of two.
2nd issue and here is where my solution comes in. It seems that although the handle value is still stored in the driver the window has lost sync with it for reason.
Here is the solution by fixing the 2nd issue:
elem = browser.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div[4]/div/a") #href link
time.sleep(2)
elem.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.RETURN + "2") #Will open a second tab
#solution for the 2nd issue is here
for handle in browser.window_handles:
print "Handle is:" + str(handle) #only one handle number
browser.switch_to_window(handle)
time.sleep(3)
#Switch the frame over. Even if you have switched it before you need to do it again
browser.switch_to_frame("Frame")
"""now this is how you handle closing the tab and working again with the original tab"""
#again switch window over
elem.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + "w")
for handle in browser.window_handles:
print "HandleAgain is:" + str(handle) #same handle number as before
browser.switch_to_window(handle)
#again switch frame over if you are working with one
browser.switch_to_frame("Frame")
time.sleep(3)
#doing a second round/tab
elem = browser.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div[4]/div/a") #href link
time.sleep(2)
elem.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.RETURN + "2") #open a 2nd tab again
"""Got it? find the handle, switch over the window then switch the frame"""
It is working perfectly for me. I'm open for questions...
Do this
_webDriver.SwitchTo().Window(_webDriver.WindowHandles.Where(x => x != _webDriver.CurrentWindowHandle).First());
or Last() etc.
PS there is no guarantee that the WindowHandles are in the order displayed on your browser, therefore, I would advise you keep some history of current windows before you do the command to that caused a new tab to open. Then you can compare your stored window handles with the current set and switch to the new one in the list, of which, there should only be one.
#Test
public void openTab() {
//Open tab 2 using CTRL + t keys.
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");
//Open URL In 2nd tab.
driver.get("http://www.qaautomated.com/p/contact.html");
//Call switchToTab() method to switch to 1st tab
switchToTab();
}
public void switchToTab() {
//Switching between tabs using CTRL + tab keys.
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"\t");
//Switch to current selected tab's content.
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
}
we can use keyboard events and automate opening and switching between multiple tabs very easily. This example is refered from HERE
I must say i tried this as well, and while it seemingly works with some bindings (Java, as far as Jonathan says, and ruby too, apparently), with others it doesnt: selenium python bindings report just one handle per window, even if containing multiple tabs
IJavaScriptExecutor is very useful class which can manipulate HTML DOM on run time through JavaScript, below is sample code on how to open a new browser tab in Selenium through IJavaScriptExecutor:
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
object linkObj = js.ExecuteScript("var link = document.createElement('a');link.target='_blank';link.href='http://www.gmail.com';link.innerHTML='Click Me';document.getElementById('social').appendChild(link);return link");
/*IWebElement link = (IWebElement)linkObj;
link.Click();*/
browser.Click("//*[#id='social']/a[3]");
Just to give an insight, there are no methods in Selenium which would allow you to open new tab, the above code would dynamically create an anchor element and directs it open an new tab.
You can try this way, since there is action_chain in the new webdriver.
I'm using Python, so please ignore the grammar:
act = ActionChains(driver)
act.key_down(Keys.CONTROL)
act.click(link).perform()
act.key_up(Keys.CONTROL)
For MAC OS
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://google.com")
body = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body")
body.send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 't')
Java Robot can be used to send Ctrl+t (or Cmd+t if MAC OS X) as follows:
int vkControl = IS_OS_MAC ? KeyEvent.VK_META : KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL;
Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.keyPress(vkControl);
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_T);
robot.keyRelease(vkControl);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_T);
A complete running example using Chrome as browser can be forked here.
I would prefer opening a new window. Is there really a difference in opening a new window vs opening a new tab from an automated solution perspective ?
you can modify the anchors target property and once clicked the target page would open in a new window.
Then use driver.switchTo() to switch to the new window. Use it to solve your issue
Instead of opening new tab you can open new window using below code.
for(String childTab : driver.getWindowHandles())
{
driver.switchTo().window(childTab);
}