Typing the Enter Return key using Python and Selenium

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I m looking for a quick way to type the Enter or Return key in Selenium  Unfortunately  the form I m trying to test  not my own code  so I can t modify  doesn t have a Submit button  When working with it manually  I just type Enter or Return  How can I do that with the Selenium type command as there is no button to click

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In Python  Step 1  from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys  Step 2  driver find element by name     send keys Keys ENTER   Note  you have to write Keys ENTER

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object sendKeys  quot your message quot   Keys ENTER    It works

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You can call submit   on the element object in which you entered your text  Alternatively  you can specifically send the Enter key to it as shown in this Python snippet  from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys element send keys Keys ENTER     element  is the WebElement object corresponding to the input field on the page

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Java driver findElement By id  quot Value quot    sendKeys Keys RETURN    OR  driver findElement By id  quot Value quot    sendKeys Keys ENTER     Python from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys driver find element by name  quot Value quot   send keys Keys RETURN   OR  driver find element by name  quot Value quot   send keys Keys ENTER   OR  element   driver find element by id  quot Value quot   element send keys  quot keysToSend quot   element submit     Ruby element    driver find element  name   quot value quot   element send keys  quot keysToSend quot  element submit  OR  element    driver find element  name   quot value quot   element send keys  quot keysToSend quot  element send keys return  OR   driver action send keys  enter  perform  driver action send keys  return  perform   C  driver FindElement By Id  quot Value quot    SendKeys Keys Return    OR  driver FindElement By Id  quot Value quot    SendKeys Keys Enter

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Java JavaScript  You could probably do it this way also  non-natively  public void triggerButtonOnEnterKeyInTextField String textFieldId  String clickableButId          JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript           quot    elementId   arguments 0               buttonId   arguments 1               document getElementById elementId                   addEventListener  quot keyup quot   function event                        event preventDefault                        if  event keyCode    13                            document getElementById buttonId  click                                              quot            textFieldId          clickableButId

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There are the following ways of pressing keys - C   Driver FindElement By Id  quot Value quot    SendKeys Keys Return    OR OpenQA Selenium Interactions Actions action   new OpenQA Selenium Interactions Actions Driver   action SendKeys OpenQA Selenium Keys Escape    OR IWebElement body   GlobalDriver FindElement By TagName  quot body quot     body SendKeys Keys Escape

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When you don t want to search any locator  you can use the Robot class  For example  Robot robot   new Robot    robot keyPress KeyEvent VK ENTER   robot keyRelease KeyEvent VK ENTER

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You just do this  final private WebElement input   driver findElement By id  quot myId quot     input clear    input sendKeys value      The value we want to set to input input sendKeys Keys RETURN

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For everyone using JavaScript   Node js  this worked for me  driver findElement By xpath  xpath    sendKeys  ENTER

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For Ruby  driver find element  id   quot XYZ quot   send keys return

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You can use either of  Keys ENTER or Keys RETURN  Here are some details  Usage   Java   Using Keys ENTER       import org openqa selenium Keys       driver findElement By id  quot element id quot    sendKeys Keys ENTER     Using Keys RETURN      import org openqa selenium Keys       driver findElement By id  quot element id quot    sendKeys Keys RETURN     Python   Using Keys ENTER       from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys      driver find element by id  quot element id quot   send keys Keys ENTER    Using Keys RETURN      from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys      driver find element by id  quot element id quot   send keys Keys RETURN     Keys ENTER and Keys RETURN both are from org openqa selenium Keys  which extends java lang Enum lt Keys gt  and implements java lang CharSequence  Enum Keys Enum Keys is the representations of pressable keys that aren t text  These are stored in the Unicode PUA  Private Use Area  code points  0xE000-0xF8FF  Key Codes  The special keys codes for them are as follows   RETURN   u  ue006  ENTER   u  ue007   The implementation of all the Enum Keys are handled the same way  Hence these is No Functional or Operational difference while working with either sendKeys Keys ENTER   or WebElement sendKeys Keys RETURN   through Selenium   Enter Key and Return Key On computer keyboards  the Enter  or the Return on Mac  OS  X  in most cases causes a command line  window form  or dialog box to operate its default function  This is typically to finish an  quot entry quot  and begin the desired process and is usually an alternative to pressing an OK button  The Return is often also referred as the Enter and they usually perform identical functions  however in some particular applications  mainly page layout  Return operates specifically like the Carriage Return key from which it originates  In contrast  the Enter is commonly labelled with its name in plain text on generic PC keyboards   References  Enter Key Carriage Return

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For Selenium Remote Control with Java  selenium keyPress  quot elementID quot    quot  13 quot     For Selenium WebDriver  a k a  Selenium 2  with Java  driver findElement By id  quot elementID quot    sendKeys Keys ENTER    Or  driver findElement By id  quot elementID quot    sendKeys Keys RETURN    Another way to press Enter in WebDriver is by using the Actions class  Actions action   new Actions driver   action sendKeys driver findElement By id  quot elementID quot     Keys ENTER  build   perform

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If you are looking for  quot how to press the Enter key from the keyboard in Selenium WebDriver  Java  quot  then below code will definitely help you     Assign a keyboard object Keyboard keyboard     HasInputDevices  driver  getKeyboard        Enter a key keyboard pressKey Keys ENTER

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import org openqa selenium Keys  WebElement sendKeys Keys RETURN     The import statement is for Java  For other languages  it is maybe different  For example  in Python it is from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys

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To enter keys using Selenium  first you need to import the following library  import org openqa selenium Keys  then add this code where you want to enter the key WebElement sendKeys Keys RETURN    You can replace RETURN with any key from the list according to your requirement

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For those folks who are using WebDriverJS Keys RETURN would be referenced as   webdriver Key RETURN   A more complete example as a reference might be helpful too   var pressEnterToSend   function          var deferred   webdriver promise defer        webdriver findElement webdriver By id  id-of-input-element    then function  element            element sendKeys webdriver Key RETURN           deferred resolve                 return deferred promise

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For Selenium WebDriver using XPath  if the key is visible   driver findElement By xpath  quot xpath of text field quot    sendKeys Keys ENTER    or  driver findElement By xpath  quot xpath of text field quot    sendKeys Keys RETURN

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You can try  selenium keyPress  quot id  quot  quot    quot   13 quot

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It could be achieved using Action interface as well  In case of WebDriver - WebElement username   driver findElement By name  quot q quot     username sendKeys searchKey   Actions action   new Actions driver   action sendKeys Keys RETURN   action perform

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selenium keyPress  css input tagit-input ui-autocomplete-input    13

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I just like to note that I needed this for my Cucumber tests and found out that if you like to simulate pressing the enter return key  you need to send the  return value and not the  enter value  see the values described here

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driver findElement By id  Value    sendKeys Keys RETURN   or driver findElement By id  Value    sendKeys Keys ENTER

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Actions action   new Actions driver   action sendKeys Keys RETURN

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I had to send the Enter key in the middle of a text  So I passed the following text to send keys function to achieve 1 n2 n3  1 N U E007 2 N U E007 3

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If you are in this specific situation  a  want to just press the key  but you not have a specific webElement to click on b  you are using Selenium 2  WebDriver  Then the solution is      Actions builder   new Actions webDriverInstance       builder sendKeys Keys RETURN  perform

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Now that Selenium 2 has been released  it s a bit easier to send an Enter key  since you can do it with the send keys method of the selenium webdriver remote webelement WebElement class  this example code is in Python  but the same method exists in Java     gt  gt  gt  from selenium import webdriver  gt  gt  gt  wd   webdriver Firefox    gt  gt  gt  wd get  http   localhost example page    gt  gt  gt  textbox   wd find element by css selector  input    gt  gt  gt  textbox send keys  Hello World n

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When writing HTML tests  the ENTER key is available as   KEY ENTER    You can use it with sendKeys  here is an example   sendKeys   id search     KEY ENTER

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Try to use an XPath expression for searching the element and then  the following code works  driver findElement By xpath  quot       id  txtFilterContentUnit   quot    sendKeys Keys ENTER

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search   browser find element by xpath  quot      type  text   quot   search send keys u  ue007     ENTER   u  ue007  Refer to Selenium s documentation  Special Keys

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