Special Keys in Selenium Python

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Special Keys is an exclusive feature of Selenium 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, let’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.
Program – 

Python3

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

# create action chain object
action = ActionChains(driver)

# perform the operation
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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