Pressing Ctrl+A in Selenium WebDriver

Question

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 allow

Answer 1

It works for me:

OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions action 
    = new OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions(browser);
action.KeyDown(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control)
    .SendKeys("a").KeyUp(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control).Perform();

Answer 2

This is what worked for me using C# (VS2015) with Selenium:

new Actions(driver).SendKeys(Keys.Control+"A").Perform();

You can add as many keys as wanted using (+) inbetween.

Answer 3

Simplest answer in C# (if you are C# inclined).

Actions action = new Actions(); 
action.KeyDown(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control).SendKeys("a").KeyUp(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control).perform();

This answer is almost given above by Hari Reddy but I have fixed the case which he'd got wrong on some keywords, added the KeyUp or you get in a mess leaving the control key down, I've also added the clarification on OpenQA.Selenium.Keys because you may also be using Windows.Forms on the same class as I was an require this clarity. Lastly, I type "a" because I found that to be the simplest way and I can see no suggestion from the OP that they don't want the simplest answer.

Many thanks to Hari Reddy though as I was a novice in Actions class usage and I was writing many different commands, chaining them together the way he showed is quicker :-)

Answer 4

In Selenium for C#, sending Keys.Control simply toggles the Control key's state: if it's up, then it becomes down; if it's down, then it becomes up. So to simulate pressing Control+A, send Keys.Control twice, once before sending "a" and then after.

For example, if we is an input IWebElement, the following statement will select all of its contents:

we.SendKeys(Keys.Control + "a" + Keys.Control);

Answer 5

To click Ctrl+A, you can do it with Actions

  Actions action = new Actions(); 
  action.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(String.valueOf('\u0061')).perform();

\u0061 represents the character 'a'

\u0041 represents the character 'A'

To press other characters refer the unicode character table - http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

Answer 6

Since Ctrl+A maps to ASCII code value 1 (Ctrl+B to 2, up to, Ctrl+Z to 26).

Try:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Internal;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;

namespace SeleniumHqTest
{
    class Test
    {
            IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost");
            IWebElement el = driver.FindElement(By.Id("an_element_id"));
            char c = '\u0001'; // ASCII code 1 for Ctrl-A
            el.SendKeys(Convert.ToString(c));
            driver.Quit();
    }
}