How to use keyboard shortcuts in selenium

Question

I am trying to use keyboard shortcuts such as copy Ctrl+C etc. What is the way of doing this?

Can someone help?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use all the keyboard shortcuts with your selenium.

The method of doing that is either you create a web element for the same or directly pass the keyboard key strokes in your command.

Here is the syntax I used :

String selectAll = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a");
driver.findElement(By.whatever("anything")).sendKeys(selectAll);

You can also follow the second method:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(id("anything")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "a");