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davids
davids

Reputation: 6371

Selenium - Click at certain position

Using the Python version of Selenium, is it possible to click some element in the DOM and to specify the coordinates where you want to click it? The Java version has the method clickAt, which actually does exactly what I am looking for, but can't find the equivalent in Python.

Upvotes: 40

Views: 110471

Answers (4)

Pranjay Kaparuwan
Pranjay Kaparuwan

Reputation: 921

You can perform the task with the Action chains in the python specially with Edge browser:

from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
actionChains = ActionChains(driver)
button_xpath  = '//xapth...' 
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(button_xpath)
actionChains.move_to_element(button).click().perform()

But sometimes Action chain does not finds the DOM element. Hence better option to use execute scipt in following way:

button_xpath  = '//xapth...' 
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(button_xpath)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)

Upvotes: 5

Pithikos
Pithikos

Reputation: 20300

This should do it! Namely you need to use action chains from webdriver. Once you have an instance of that, you simply register a bunch of actions and then call perform() to perform them.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
el=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(string(), 'Lucky')]")[0]

action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
action.move_to_element_with_offset(el, 5, 5)
action.click()
action.perform()

This will move the mouse 5 pixels down and 5 pixels right from the upper-left corner of the button I feel lucky. Then it will click().

Notice that you must use perform(). Else nothing will happen.

Upvotes: 63

Arran
Arran

Reputation: 25066

The reason you are getting confused is clickAt is an old v1 (Selenium RC) method.

WebDriver has a slightly different concept, of 'Actions'.

Specifically, the 'Actions' builder for the Python bindings live here.

The idea of the clickAt command is to click at a certain position relative to a particular element.

The same is achievable within the WebDriver, using the 'Actions' builder.

Hopefully this updated documentation can help.

Upvotes: 7

Ewan
Ewan

Reputation: 15058

I've not personally used this method, but looking through the source code of selenium.py I've found the following methods that look like they'd do what you want - They look to wrap clickAt:

def click_at(self,locator,coordString):
    """
    Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action
    causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call
    waitForPageToLoad.

    'locator' is an element locator
    'coordString' is specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse      event relative to the element returned by the locator.
    """
    self.do_command("clickAt", [locator,coordString,])


def double_click_at(self,locator,coordString):
    """
    Doubleclicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the action
    causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call
    waitForPageToLoad.

    'locator' is an element locator
    'coordString' is specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse      event relative to the element returned by the locator.
    """
    self.do_command("doubleClickAt", [locator,coordString,])

They appear in the selenium object and here is their online API documentation.

Upvotes: 3

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