How to write a keyDown and keyUp for webdriver?

Question

I'm trying to write a keyDown and keyUp for webdriver, similar to selenium. I know how to use Actions, but dint find a way to write a generic(working for special and normal keys) keyDown function.

Something like selenium which accepts keycode as well keys. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you are trying to, for example, to select all from a input field and Delete, you can do something like this:

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("a").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.DELETE).perform(); 

Answer 2

Look at the JavaDoc for KeyUpAction and KeyDownAction in org.openqa.selenium.interactions:

• http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/interactions/package-summary.html

Moved to GitHub:

• http://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/

See also:

• How can I programmatically generate keypress events?

Answer 3

KeyDown and KeyUp -- Used to press a key and then un press the key. Like below we can use this scenario;

Actions ac  = Actions(driverObj);
ac.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).click(we).keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).build().perform();

Here we are using press CONTROL key and then click() and then unpress the CONTROL key.