Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Special Keys is an exclusive feature of Seleium in python, that allows pressing keys through keyboard such as ctrl+f, or shift+c+v, etc. class selenium.webdriver.common.keys.Keys handles all Keys in Selenium Python. It contains huge number of key methods one can use in Selenium Python.
How to use Special Keys in Selenium Python
To demonstrate, Special Keys, lett’s use key_up method of Action Chains in Selenium Python. This bot visits https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ and press ctrl+f to open search bar.
# import webdriver from selenium import webdriver # import Action chains from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains # import KEYS from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys # create webdriver object driver = webdriver.Firefox() # get geeksforgeeks.org # create action chain object action = ActionChains(driver) # perform the oepration action.key_down(Keys.CONTROL).send_keys('F').key_up(Keys.CONTROL).perform() |
Output –
Special Keys
Various keys that can be used in Selenium Python are –
| ADD | ALT | ARROW_DOWN |
| ARROW_LEFT | ARROW_RIGHT | ARROW_UP |
| BACKSPACE | BACK_SPACE | CANCEL |
| CLEAR | COMMAND | CONTROL |
| DECIMAL | DELETE | DIVIDE |
| DOWN | END | ENTER |
| EQUALS | ESCAPE | F1 |
| F10 | F11 | F12 |
| F2 | F3 | F4 |
| F5 | F6 | F7 |
| F8 | F9 | HELP |
| HOME | INSERT | LEFT |
| LEFT_ALT | LEFT_CONTROL | LEFT_SHIFT |
| META | MULTIPLY | NULL |
| NUMPAD0 | NUMPAD1 | NUMPAD2 |
| NUMPAD3 | NUMPAD4 | NUMPAD5 |
| NUMPAD6 | NUMPAD7 | NUMPAD8 |
| NUMPAD9 | PAGE_DOWN | PAGE_UP |
| PAUSE | RETURN | RIGHT |
| SEMICOLON | SEPARATOR | SHIFT |
| SPACE | SUBTRACT | TAB |
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