Selenium Essentials

Mouse and keyboard actions

In Selenium WebDriver, actions can be either mouse actions or keyboard actions. The selenium-based Actions API provides support to click on a particular location with or without elements and use keyboard shortcuts efficiently.

• The build() method generates all the composite actions. The following is the syntax for this function:

  action.build();

  The following code snippet explains to you how you can generate actions using the build() method:

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);
  action.click(driver.findElement(By.locatorType("path")));
  action.build();

• The click() method performs a mouse click on the current mouse pointer location. The following is the syntax for this function:

  action.click(); action.click(driver.findElement(By. ...