context_click – Action Chains in Selenium Python

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. ActionChains are a way to automate low-level interactions such as mouse movements, mouse button actions, keypress, and context menu interactions. This is useful for doing more complex actions like hover over and drag and drop. Action chain methods are used by advanced scripts where we need to drag an element, click an element, double click, etc.
This article revolves around context_click method on Action Chains in Python Selenium. context_click method is used to perform a context-click (right click) on an element.

Syntax –

context_click(on_element=None)

Args –
on_element – The element to context-click. If None, clicks on current mouse position.

Example –

<input type ="text" name ="passwd" id ="passwd-id" />

To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,

element = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd-id")
element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd")

Now one can use context_click method as an Action chain as below –

context_click(on_element=element)

How to use context_click Action Chain method in Selenium Python ?

To demonstrate, context_click method of Action Chains in Selenium Python. Let’ s visit https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ and operate on an element.

Program –

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver

# import Action chains
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

# get element
element = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Courses")

# create action chain object
action = ActionChains(driver)

# context click the item
action.context_click(on_element = element)

# perform the operation
action.perform()

Output –