Using the Python version of Selenium, is it possible to click some element in the DOM and to specify the coordinates where you want to click it?
The Java version has the method clickAt
, which actually does exactly what I am looking for, but can't find the equivalent in Python.
We can use the ClickAt command in Selenium IDE. The ClickAt command has two arguments − the element locator and the coordinates which mentions the x and y coordinates of the mouse with respect to the element identified by the locator.
There are two ways to verify the location of an element. getLocation() verifies the absolute location of an element. I don't recommend this, it can change all the time depending on loading speeds and the size of the window. getCssValue() can, to an extent, verify the relative location of an element.
The getLocation method can be executed on all the WebElements. This is used to get the relative position of an element where it is rendered on the web page. This position is calculated relative to the top-left corner of the web page of which the (x, y) coordinates are assumed to be (0, 0).
Selenium uses the Actions class to perform the right click action. The contextClick() is a method under Actions class to do the right click and once the menu opens, we can select an option from them via automation.
This should do it! Namely you need to use action chains from webdriver. Once you have an instance of that, you simply register a bunch of actions and then call perform()
to perform them.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
el=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(string(), 'Lucky')]")[0]
action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
action.move_to_element_with_offset(el, 5, 5)
action.click()
action.perform()
This will move the mouse 5 pixels down and 5 pixels right from the upper-left corner of the button I feel lucky. Then it will click()
.
Notice that you must use perform()
. Else nothing will happen.
The reason you are getting confused is clickAt
is an old v1 (Selenium RC) method.
WebDriver has a slightly different concept, of 'Actions'.
Specifically, the 'Actions' builder for the Python bindings live here.
The idea of the clickAt
command is to click at a certain position relative to a particular element.
The same is achievable within the WebDriver, using the 'Actions' builder.
Hopefully this updated documentation can help.
You can perform the task with the Action chains in the python specially with Edge browser:
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
actionChains = ActionChains(driver)
button_xpath = '//xapth...'
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(button_xpath)
actionChains.move_to_element(button).click().perform()
But sometimes Action chain does not finds the DOM element. Hence better option to use execute scipt in following way:
button_xpath = '//xapth...'
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(button_xpath)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)
I've not personally used this method, but looking through the source code of selenium.py
I've found the following methods that look like they'd do what you want - They look to wrap clickAt
:
def click_at(self,locator,coordString):
"""
Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action
causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call
waitForPageToLoad.
'locator' is an element locator
'coordString' is specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.
"""
self.do_command("clickAt", [locator,coordString,])
def double_click_at(self,locator,coordString):
"""
Doubleclicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the action
causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call
waitForPageToLoad.
'locator' is an element locator
'coordString' is specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.
"""
self.do_command("doubleClickAt", [locator,coordString,])
They appear in the selenium object and here is their online API documentation.
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