{"id":95506,"date":"2018-07-03T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/?p=95506"},"modified":"2018-07-04T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T09:57:02","slug":"performing-events-selenium-webdriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/performing-events-selenium-webdriver\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing Events in Selenium WebDriver"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous<\/a> post, we learnt how to locate elements<\/a> in webpage using WebDriver. After locating an element, we obviously need\/want to perform some activity\/event on it. The event could be clicking the element, typing something (filling a form) or getting the content present under the element. Now let’s see some common events which we can use while writing a script in selenium WebDriver.<\/p>\n

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  1. Selecting\/accessing an input element.<\/li>\n
  2. Accessing a button.<\/li>\n
  3. Accessing\/operating drop-downs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Selecting\/accessing an input element.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Input elements are most commonly used elements in a form or a webpage (which takes some input from user). An input element can be of a text type or can be a password type (which shows ‘*’ while writing something on them). The text fields accept the entered value and show as it is (the way they are typed). In a password filed, they generally mask the typed value usually by dots or\u00a0asterisks to avoid the sensitivity of the content.
    \nConsider the following example, we will select an input element and \u00a0will try to enter some value to it.<\/p>\n

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    In the above images, we have two elements. The first element takes email as its input type and the other takes password as its input type. Consider we want to enter values as email-‘himanshu.chand168@webkul.com’ and password- ‘secret’. We can get the first element by it’s attribute id and second by it’s name (Different type of locators are explained here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

    Entering values to input element :<\/h3>\n

    To enter some values in an element, we use the method ‘sendKeys’.<\/p>\n