How to simulate pressing enter in HTML text input with Selenium ?
Last Updated :
15 Dec, 2021
Selenium is an inbuilt module available in python that allows users to make automated suites and tests. We can build code or scripts to perform tasks automatically in a web browser using selenium. Selenium is used to test the software by automation. Also, programmers can create automated test cases for the software or app using the selenium.
By reading this tutorial, users will be able to simulate pressing enter in HTML text input with selenium. Also, we will write a simple code that can search text on the Wikipedia website automatically and perform automated login on the Geeksforgeeks website.
Prerequisite:
Users should have installed python 3.7+ in their system to work with the selenium. To install selenium run the below command on the terminal.
pip install selenium
Download chrome webdriver: Next, users need to download webdriver according to which browser they want to run automated software. Chrome webdriver is one of the best webdriver. Users can download chrome webdriver from here. While downloading the chrome webdriver, make sure that the webdriver version is compatible with the browser version.
To simulate the pressing enter, users can add the below line in the python automation script code.
HTML_ELEMENT.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
Search text using selenium on Wikipedia: In this part, we will cover that how users can open Wikipedia sites and search text automatically on Wikipedia or other websites using selenium.
Approach:
- Import webdriver from selenium
- Initialize webdriver path
- Open any URL
- Find the search element using any method from below
- Input text into the search field
- Press enter key to search input text
Example:
Python3
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from time import sleep, strftime
chromedriver_path = '<Chrome webdriver path>'
webdriver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = chromedriver_path)
try :
input = webdriver.find_element_by_id( "searchInput" )
input .send_keys( "Python" )
input .send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
sleep( 10 )
finally :
webdriver.close()
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Note: Don’t forget to set the chrome web driver’s path.
Output:
Log in automatically to GeeksForGeeks using the selenium module: In this part, we will cover that how users can log in to Geeksforgeeks using the selenium bot.
Approach:
- Import webdriver from selenium
- Initialize webdriver path
- Open Geeksforgeeks URL
- Find and press enter on the sign-in button
- Find the username and password element on Geeksforgeeks website
- Set username and password into the input field
- Find the login button
- Pressing enter or click on the login button
Example:
Python3
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from time import sleep, strftime
chromedriver_path = '<chrome web driver path>'
webdriver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = chromedriver_path)
try :
signIn = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector( '#userProfileId > a' )
signIn.click()
sleep( 4 )
username = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector( '#luser' )
username.send_keys( '<Geeksforgeeks Username>' )
password = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector( '#password' )
password.send_keys( '<Geeksforgeeks password>' )
button_login = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector(
'#Login > button' )
button_login.click()
sleep( 6 )
finally :
webdriver.close()
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Note: Don’t forget to set web driver’s path, Geeksforgeeks username, and password.
Output:
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