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Bill K
Bill K

Reputation: 62789

In Selenium how do I find the "Current" object

I would like for Selenium to navigate a menu via arrow keys--Starting with clicking the top menu item then pressing "DOWN", "DOWN", ...

The problem is that you have to always supply a specific element to send the "DOWN" to.

Is there any way to get the current element?

I tried:

by.xpath(".")

but it said that the expression was unrecognized or didn't return a proper object.

I expect I'm jsut missing some stupid trick.

Upvotes: 25

Views: 59363

Answers (4)

Tamlyn
Tamlyn

Reputation: 23642

In Ruby/Capybara:

page.driver.browser.switch_to.active_element

Note that this returns a Selenium::WebDriver::Element not a Capybara::Node::Element.

Upvotes: 1

David Valenza
David Valenza

Reputation: 1179

in python:

element = driver.switch_to.active_element

Upvotes: 27

Vineet Reynolds
Vineet Reynolds

Reputation: 76729

In Selenium 2.0, if you are using WebDriver to drive the tests in the browser, you can use the WebDriver.TargetLocator class to get the element in focus, in a window/frame:

WebDriver driver = ... // initialize the driver
WebElement currentElement = driver.switchTo().activeElement();

If no element is in focus, the active element would turn out to be the body of the document being displayed, which might be the case when you launch a new page, for instance. When you invoke methods like click, sendKeys etc. you'll find the WebElement returned by the above invocation will always represent the element in focus.

This was tested using FirefoxDriver, and I would suspect that the same would be true of other drivers, except for the HtmlUnitDriver and similar drivers that do not use a full-fledged browser under the hood.

Upvotes: 41

prestomanifesto
prestomanifesto

Reputation: 12816

Don't know of a more straightforward way than accessing document.activeElement

How do I test which element has the focus in Selenium RC?

Upvotes: 8

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