How to send ESC key to close pop up window using Python and Selenium?

Question

As mentioned, is there a way to send global ESC key to close popup(CSS MODAL Window)? I tried following but did not work:

driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.ESCAPE)

I know I can use xPath etc but issue is the site has dynamic elementIds and classnames.

Answer 1

You don't need to send keys to the element, you need to press them globally (to browser).

You can do it via Actions.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

webdriver.ActionChains(driver).send_keys(Keys.ESCAPE).perform()

You can see more info in Webdriver API - 7.2 Action Chains doc