click method - Action Chains in Selenium Python

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. ActionChains are a way to automate low-level interactions such as mouse movements, mouse button actions, keypress, and context menu interactions. This is useful for doing more complex actions like hover over and drag and drop. Action chain methods are used by advanced scripts where we need to drag an element, click an element, double click, etc. This article revolves around click method on Action Chains in Python Selenium. click method is used to click on an element or current position.

Syntax -

click(on_element=None)

Args -

on_element - The element to click. If None, clicks on current mouse position.

Example -

<input type="text" name="passwd" id="passwd-id" />

To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,

element = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd-id")
element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd")

Now one can use click method as an Action chain as below -

click(on_element=element)

How to use click Action Chain method in Selenium Python ?

To demonstrate, click method of Action Chains in Selenium Python. Let' s visit https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ and operate on an element.

Program -

# Import required modules
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

# Create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# Get python.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

# Get element
element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Courses")

# Create action chain object
action = ActionChains(driver)

# Click on the item
action.click(on_element=element)

# Perform the operation
action.perform()

# Close the driver
driver.quit()

Output -