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Krausz Lóránt Szilveszter
Krausz Lóránt Szilveszter

Reputation: 369

How to make protractor press the ESCAPE key?

I've tried this:

browser.actions().sendKeys(protractor.Key.ESCAPE).perform();

but nothing happens.

I'm using this with SPACE Key and this works fine.

browser.actions().sendKeys(protractor.Key.SPACE).perform();

Upvotes: 8

Views: 11241

Answers (5)

user12906824
user12906824

Reputation:

basically what you have done is correct. try to write it like method and call this method because it is working fine for me.

selectEscapeKey: function () { return browser.actions().sendKeys(protractor.Key.ESCAPE).perform();},

Upvotes: 0

krishnarajanr
krishnarajanr

Reputation: 696

If you want to use the same code as you have return, you can use this:

browser
    .actions()
    .sendKeys(protractor.Key.ESCAPE)
    .perform();

I hope this would work for you.

Since the sendKeys and Key is implemented using Keyboard class, the key values will differ for the OS May be.

The links below will give the name of the keys you have to give for the sendKeys:
https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/appendix/SendKeys.htm https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Send.htm

Hope this helped.

Upvotes: 6

wswebcreation
wswebcreation

Reputation: 2375

There could be several reasons for it, but first of all, according to the documentation of Protractor you need to execute the sendKeys() on an ElementFinder, so if the focus is on for example an input field you can do this

element(by.css('#-your-input-id')).sendKeys(protractor.Key.ESCAPE);

You can also do it on the body like this ($ = shorthand for by.css):

$('body').sendKeys(protractor.Key.ESCAPE);

Secondly there could be a problem with the UserInteraction API of your webdriver. In the past there were a lot of problems with the Firefox and Safari driver and with some versions of Chromedriver.

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 13

radio_head
radio_head

Reputation: 1375

When in confusion like this, start looking into the source code..else do a console.log to get idea of what is provided by the framework.

Try this

console.log('**********');
console.log(protractor.Key);
console.log('**********');

Upvotes: 0

Huluvu424242
Huluvu424242

Reputation: 765

Maybe you must send the ESC Key to any element? At my app the following assignment works fine for a cancel button.

element(by.xpath('...')).sendKeys(protractor.Key.ESCAPE);

Upvotes: 3

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