I need to press Ctrl+A keys using Selenium WebDriver. Is there any way to do it?
I checked the Selenium libraries and found that Selenium allows key press of special and Functional keys only.
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, "a");
driver.findElement(By.whatever("anything")).sendKeys(selectAll);
You can use this to select the whole text in an <input>
, or on the whole page (just find the html
element and send this to it).
EDIT - after OP stated that he's 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("a")
.key_up(:control)
.perform