Pressing Ctrl A in Selenium WebDriver

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Is there a way to press the Ctrl   A keys using Selenium WebDriver  I checked the Selenium libraries and found that Selenium allows key press of special and function keys only

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The simplest answer in C   if you are C  inclined   Actions action   new Actions     action KeyDown OpenQA Selenium Keys Control  SendKeys  quot a quot   KeyUp OpenQA Selenium Keys Control  perform     This answer is almost given by Hari Reddy  but I have fixed the case which he d got wrong on some keywords  added the KeyUp or you get in a mess leaving the control key down  I ve also added the clarification on OpenQA Selenium Keys  because you may also be using Windows Forms on the same class as I was an require this clarity  Lastly  I type  quot a quot  because I found that to be the simplest way and I can see no suggestion from the OP that they don t want the simplest answer  Many thanks to Hari Reddy though as I was a novice in Actions class usage and I was writing many different commands  Chaining them together the way he showed is quicker  -

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For Python   ActionChains driver  key down Keys CONTROL  send keys  a   key up Keys CONTROL  perform

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Actions act   new Actions driver   act keyDown Keys CONTROL  sendKeys  a   keyUp Keys CONTROL  build   perform

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I found that in Ruby  you can pass two arguments to send keys Like this  element send keys  control   A

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In Selenium for C   sending Keys Control simply toggles the Control key s state  if it s up  then it becomes down  if it s down  then it becomes up  So to simulate pressing Control A  send Keys Control twice  once before sending  a  and then after   For example  if we is an input IWebElement  the following statement will select all of its contents   we SendKeys Keys Control    a    Keys Control

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You could try this   driver findElement By xpath id  anything    sendKeys Keys CONTROL    a

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By using the Robot class in Java  import java awt Robot  import java awt event KeyEvent   public class Test1       public static void main String   args  throws Exception               WebDriver d1   new FirefoxDriver            d1 navigate   to  quot https   www youtube com  quot            Thread sleep 3000           Robot rb   new Robot            rb keyPress KeyEvent VK TAB           rb keyRelease KeyEvent VK TAB           rb keyPress KeyEvent VK TAB           rb keyRelease KeyEvent VK TAB               Perform  Ctrl A  Operation - it works         rb keyPress KeyEvent VK CONTROL           rb keyPress KeyEvent VK A               It needs to release key after pressing         rb keyRelease KeyEvent VK A           rb keyRelease KeyEvent VK CONTROL           Thread sleep 3000

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It works for me   OpenQA Selenium Interactions Actions action        new OpenQA Selenium Interactions Actions browser   action KeyDown OpenQA Selenium Keys Control       SendKeys  a   KeyUp OpenQA Selenium Keys Control  Perform

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To click Ctrl A  you can do it with Actions    Actions action   new Actions       action keyDown Keys CONTROL  sendKeys String valueOf   u0061    perform       u0061 represents the character  a    u0041 represents the character  A   To press other characters refer the unicode character table - http   unicode org charts PDF U0000 pdf

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This is what worked for me using C   Visual  Studio  2015  with Selenium  new Actions driver  SendKeys Keys Control    quot A quot   Perform     You can add as many keys as wanted using     in between

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One more solution  in Java  because you didn t tell us your language - but it works the same way in all languages with Keys class   String selectAll   Keys chord Keys CONTROL   quot a quot    driver findElement By whatever  quot anything quot    sendKeys selectAll    You can use this to select the whole text in an  lt input gt   or on the whole page  just find the html element and send this to it    For using Selenium Ruby bindings  There s no chord   method in the Keys class in Ruby bindings  Therefore  as suggested by Hari Reddy  you ll have to use Selenium Advanced user interactions API  see ActionBuilder      driver action key down  control                    send keys  quot a quot                     key up  control                    perform

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Since Ctrl A maps to ASCII code value 1  Ctrl B to 2  up to  Ctrl Z to 26    Try   using System  using System Collections Generic  using System Linq  using System Text   using OpenQA Selenium  using OpenQA Selenium IE  using OpenQA Selenium Support UI  using OpenQA Selenium Interactions  using OpenQA Selenium Internal  using OpenQA Selenium Remote   namespace SeleniumHqTest       class Test                   IWebDriver driver   new InternetExplorerDriver                driver Navigate   GoToUrl  http   localhost                IWebElement el   driver FindElement By Id  an element id                 char c     u0001      ASCII code 1 for Ctrl-A             el SendKeys Convert ToString c                driver Quit

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Java The Robot class will work much more efficiently than sending the keys through Selenium sendkeys  Please try  Example  Robot rb   new Robot    rb keyPress KeyEvent VK CONTROL   rb keyPress KeyEvent VK A    To use the above Robot class  you need to import java awt Robot

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WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver     Actions action   new Actions driver     action keyDown Keys CONTROL  sendKeys  a   keyUp Keys CONTROL  perform      This method removes the extra call   String ValueOf     to convert unicode to string

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