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Tiffany G
Tiffany G

Reputation: 203

Sending keyboard shortcuts to chrome with Selenium and Ruby

I'm attempting to launch the devtools in a chrome browser on Linux by using the keyboard shortcuts. Because I'm using Ruby and it does not have a chord method, I've tried the following:

driver.action.key_down(:shift)
             .key_down(:control)
             .send_keys("i")
             .key_up(:shift)
             .key_up(:control)
             .perform

The above code will work in Firefox (as suggested in Key press in (Ctrl+A) Selenium WebDriver), but in chrome, it returns nil but no results occur.

Any advice?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 3668

Answers (3)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 703

In Selenium I have used :

function key F12.

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.F12);

Upvotes: 1

Shubham Jain
Shubham Jain

Reputation: 17553

You can use robot class of java, if you want to open dev-tools.

    try{
        Robot robot=new Robot();
        robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_F12);
        robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_F12);  
    }
    catch(Exception ex){
        System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
    }

Upvotes: 0

szeryf
szeryf

Reputation: 3387

I think you're just using a wrong keys combination. According to this: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/171571?hl=en&ref_topic=25799, the shortcut to open Developer Tools is Ctrl-Shift-J on Linux and Windows and Cmd-Opt-I on Mac.

Upvotes: 0

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