sendKeys() in Selenium web driver

Question

I am new to Selenium. I just want to send keys to a username text box and send a tab key both at a time so that text box can check for availability of username.

Here is the code:

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[text()='User Name:']/following::div/input")).sendKeys("UserName");
 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[text()='User Name:']/following::div/input")).sendKeys(Keys.TAB);

But this one is not working.

Answer 1

I doubt for Keys.TAB in sendKeys method... if you want to use TAB you need to do something like below:

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
builder.keyDown(Keys.TAB).perform()