Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Getting started with the API

Let's start off by creating a basic Actions object that we can use to perform a series of actions, as follows:

Actions advancedActions = new Actions(driver); 

It's very simple to create. We just pass in a driver object, and we now have an Actions object available.

Let's start off by performing a couple of basic commands to give you an idea of what can be done:

WebElement anElement = driver.findElement(By.id("anElement")); 
advancedActions.moveToElement(anElement).contextClick().perform(); 

We have now created a very basic script that will move the mouse cursor to an element and then right-click on it. The Actions object allows us to queue up a series of commands that we want to execute and then perform them all ...