Use Advanced User Interactions in Selenium WebDriver to Drive Keyboard and Mouse

Perform Complex Mouse and Keyboard Operations in Selenium WebDriver

A repost of my daughter’s article with permission and slight modification. I added it here for the convenience of my blog subscribers. You can find more Selenium examples like this one in my eBook: Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby. This is also included in my “How to in Selenium WebDriver” series.

The ActionBuilder in Selenium WebDriver provides a way to set up and perform complex user interactions. Specifically, grouping a series of keyboard and mouse operations and sending them to the browser.

Mouse interactions

• click
• click_and_hold
• context_click
• double_click
• drag_and_drop
• drag_and_drop_by
• move_by
• move_to
• release

Keyboard interactions

• key_down
• key_up
• send_keys

These functions in Advanced User Interactions are self-explanatory. This article will show some examples of how to use them.