Use Of Action Class In Selenium

Action Class is an advance webdriver API . By using action class methods user can interact below events:

Mouse Movement
Right Click
Drag & Drop
Double Click
Keyboard operation

Steps to follow Mouse movement operation:

• Find a web element in UI where you need to perform mouseover operation.
• Create an object of Action class & pass driver instance as an argument.

Ex:

                 Actions act = new Actions(driver);

            

• Perform mouse movement operation using "MoveToElement()" method.
• Also we can use Perform() method.

Ex:

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.Id("dropdown ID"));

actions.moveToElement(ele);

WebElement ele1 = driver.findElement(By.Id("sub option ID"));

actions.moveToElement(ele1);

actions.click().build().perform();

Working with Keyboard operation :

WebDriver  driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("www.facebook.com");
driver.findElement(By.Id("username")).sendKeys("xxxx");
driver.findElement(By.Id("password")).sendKeys("xxxx");
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.sendKeys(Keys.Enter).Perform();

Question

1. Without using Click() ,how to click the buttons?

Ans. By using Submit() method.

Drag & Drop scenario :

public class DragNDropSample {
WebDriver driver;
@Test
public void DragAndDrop() {
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.navigate().to("www.someurl.com");
                WebElement Source = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("source place"));
                WebElement target = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("destination place"));
dragAndDrop(Source,target);
}
}

Some More Action Class functions:

clickAndHold()

contextClick()

doubleClick()