Perform a sequence of actions with Selenium WebDriver

Problem

We want to perform multiple actions in once, like: drag-and-drop, sliding, selecting multiple items.

Solution

The example code below shows some examples where we can use the Actions interface of Selenium WebDriver.

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import java.util.List; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.Keys; 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; import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass; import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass; import org.testng.annotations.Test; public class ActionExample { private static WebDriver driver; @BeforeClass public void setUp() { driver = new FirefoxDriver(); } @AfterClass public void tearDown() { driver.close(); driver.quit(); } @Test public void draggable() { driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/demos/draggable/"); WebElement draggable = driver.findElement(By.id("draggable")); new Actions(driver).dragAndDropBy(draggable, 120, 120).build() .perform(); } @Test public void droppable() { driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/demos/droppable/"); WebElement draggable = driver.findElement(By.id("draggable")); WebElement droppable = driver.findElement(By.id("droppable")); new Actions(driver).dragAndDrop(draggable, droppable).build().perform(); } @Test public void selectMultiple() throws InterruptedException { driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/demos/selectable/"); List<WebElement> listItems = driver.findElements(By .cssSelector("ol#selectable *")); Actions builder = new Actions(driver); builder.clickAndHold(listItems.get(1)).clickAndHold(listItems.get(2)) .click(); Action selectMultiple = builder.build(); selectMultiple.perform(); } @Test public void sliding() { driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/demos/slider/"); WebElement draggable = driver.findElement(By .className("ui-slider-handle")); new Actions(driver).dragAndDropBy(draggable, 120, 0).build().perform(); } @Test public void typing() { driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/demos/typing/"); WebElement typingArea = driver.findElement(By .className("div-to-wrtite-text-in")); new Actions(driver).sendKeys(typingArea).build().perform(); }

Read more here - http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/AdvancedUserInteractions