reset_actions method – Action Chains in Selenium Python

26 July 2024

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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 reset_actions method on Action Chains in Python Selenium. reset_actions method clears actions that are already stored locally and on the remote end. It is one of most used methods, since after some operation, action instance needs to be reset to perform next operation.

Syntax –

reset_actions

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") 
another_element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd") 

Now one can use reset_actions method as an Action chain as below –

action.click(on_element = element)
action.reset_actions()
action.click(on_element = another_element)

How to use reset_actions Action Chain method in Selenium Python ?

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

Program –

# import webdriver 
from selenium import webdriver 
  
# import Action chains  
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains 
  
# create webdriver object 
driver = webdriver.Firefox() 
  
# get geeksforgeeks.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 the item 
action.click(on_element = element) 
  
# perform the operation 
action.perform() 
  
# get another element  
another_element = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Courses") 
  
# reset the action 
action.reset_actions() 
  
# click the item 
action.click(on_element = another_element) 
  
# perform the operation 
action.perform() 