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Hello,

Welcome to Selenium tutorial, today we will see how to perform advance activity in Selenium Webdriver.

If you really want to automate critical applications, which include advance activity like Mouse Hover, Right click, Double click, Click and Hold, Keyboard activities and so on.

You cannot automate Ajax application, which contains advance activity so let us have a look.

you can also try Drag and Drop in Selenium using Action class

You do not have to worry about all this because all will come in single bundle i.e. you can perform all this using Actions class in Selenium.

Method name and Usage

moveToElement(WebElement)-- Mouse Hover

contextClick()-- Right click on page

contextClick(WebElement)-- Right click on specific Element

sendKeys(KEYS.TAB)--For keyboard events

clickAndHold(WebElement)--Click on element and hold until next operation

release() Release the current control

 

We still have so many methods in Actions class so will recommend you have a look for other methods as well for better clarifications.
https://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/interactions/Actions.html

Usage of Mouse Hover- Handle Autosuggestion in Selenium
Now a days its default feature of almost all the application take an example of Google itself when you type some words on search box, it gives some related suggestion.
To achieve this we will use first mouse hover on element then click.

Scenario for Naukri.com autosuggestion-

First we will enter keywords using sendKeys() method then we have to wait for some time (2 or 3 seconds) to load suggestion and once it is loaded we will use mouse hover event using moveToElement() method of action class then we will click on that particular Item using click(Webelement) method of actions class.
Let’s implement the same

package testcases;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class AutoSuggestion {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.get("http://www.naukri.com");

// Type something on Skill textbox
driver.findElement(By.id("qp")).sendKeys("test");

// Create object on Actions class
Actions builder=new Actions(driver);

// find the element which we want to Select from auto suggestion
WebElement ele=driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='autosuggest']/ul/li[2]/a"));

// use Mouse hover action for that element
builder.moveToElement(ele).build().perform();

// Give wait for 2 seconds 
Thread.sleep(2000);

// finally click on that element
builder.click(ele).build().perform();
}


}

 

Right Click in Selenium Webdriver

As we discussed earlier for right-click on a particular link or any web-element Selenium Webdriver has contextClick() methods available in Actions class.
There are two flavors of this
1-contextClick()- which will right Click on a page
2-contextClick(WebElement) – which will right click on a particular web-element.
Program 1-Below is the program to right click on a link in Google Home page

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
public class TestRightClick {
@Test
public void TestClick() throws Exception{
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(“http://www.google.com”);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
Actions act=new Actions(driver);
act.contextClick(driver.findElement(By.linkText(“Gujarati”))).perform();
}
}

 

Keyboard events using Actions class.

For this we will use previous example after right click we will select second option from list for this we will use ARROW_DOWN key two times then we will hit ENTER Key.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class GoogleTC {

public static void main(String[] args) {


WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://www.google.com");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

Actions act=new Actions(driver);

act.contextClick(driver.findElement(By.linkText("Gujarati"))).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER).build().perform();

}

}

 

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Comments

  1. Faisal nadeem says

    Hi @Mukesh Otwani, i am automating web application in which i am using event publishing time and starting, for this scenario i used publishing time as my system time but i want the starting time should be 6 mints later from the system time like suppose, publishing time in my system / current time is i.e. 1400 and want the starting time will be 1406, how can take 6 mints later plz help. thanks

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  2. Subhasmita says

    Hi,I want to automate an api .I want to fetch some records for a particular date range from an api and print it . How to set the date dynamically? Please help me…

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Subhasmita,

      Selection of date start date like 1 week before or 1 month before depends on your use case. Now for the end date, you can define how many days further for which you can Calendar class to get the end date dynamically based on your start date.
      If you want the start date to be dynamic, you can fetch the system date dynamically and manipulate the start accordingly.

      Reply

  3. Yashu says

    Hi Mukesh , the subscribe pop up of your website appears when i have already subscribed to it. Can it be controlled ?

    Reply

  4. shabina shaikh says

    Hi Sir, Im trying to automate the signature screen my Frame is attached with Canvas there is no Id/xpath is defined for canvas, Canvas integration is directly done using java code is there any solution to write Xpath for canvas??

    Reply

  5. Naincy says

    Hi,
    I am getting unsupported command exception how can I resolve this issue when I am trying to perform mouse hover using action class.
    Chrome driver version- 77.0.3865.40
    Chrome- 77.0.3865.90
    Selenium web driver version-2.53.0

    Reply

  8. Shobhit says

    I have written the below code by taking reference from your blog

    package com.Mypackage;

    import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

    import org.openqa.selenium.By;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
    import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;
    import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

    public class MouseHover {

    public static void main(String []args) throws InterruptedException{

    System.setProperty(“webdriver.gecko.driver”,”C:\\javapra\\geckodriver-v0.13.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe”);

    WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    driver.get(“https://www.naukri.com/”);
    WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//span[text()=’ Search Jobs ‘]”));

    element.click();
    element.sendKeys(“test”);

    Actions act=new Actions(driver);
    WebElement ele=driver.findElement(By.xpath(“.//*[@id=’sugDrp_skill’]/ul/li[1]/div”));
    act.moveToElement(ele).build()perform();

    act.click(ele).build().perform();

    }
    }

    Getting this exception:
    Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.UnsupportedCommandException: POST /session/54395cd1-96ff-4ef9-859f-3e8ee68cdb73/moveto did not match a known command.

    I have googled it and that selenium version 3 and above are not supporting action commands.Is it true, please reply.

    Reply

  9. Kavitha says

    Mukesh, I am getting nosuchelementexception for the below code; not sure why; can you help me out here
    driver.get(“http://www.google.co.in”);
    driver.findElement(By.xpath(“.//*[@id=’gs_htif0′]”)).sendKeys(“kavitha”);

    Actions act = new Actions(driver);
    WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath(“.//*[@id=’sbse0′]/div[2]”));
    act.moveToElement(ele).build().perform();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    act.click(ele).build().perform();

    Reply

  10. Ramya says

    Hello Mukesh,
    I came across this error- unsupported command exception.POST /session/dcf6738a-b46f-a342-9f46-c5d5f8e041b9/moveto did not match a known command. I am using selenium 3 and FF browser version 45.7.0.Can you pease help me with this.

    Reply

  13. bindu says

    how to handle multiple windows and how to use mouse hover using page object model with page factory. i tried many methods but am unable to do it. can u please clarify with this?

    Reply

  16. Madhur Bharadwaj says

    Hi Mukesh , I am not able to find the xpath of the autosuggestion , its not working for me .

    Reply

  18. amit Chaudhary says

    Hi Mukesh,

    what is the difference between perform() and build().perform() ?

    I tried the naukri.com example with just “perform()” method only and it was giving me the same results.

    Thanks,
    Amit Chaudhary

    Reply

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