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 drag_and_drop_by_offset method on Action Chains in Python Selenium. drag_and_drop_by_offset method holds down the left mouse button on the source element, then moves to the target offset and releases the mouse button.
Syntax –
drag_and_drop_by_offset(source, xoffset, yoffset)
source: The element to mouse down.xoffset: X offset to move to.yoffset: Y offset to move to.
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 drag_and_drop_by_offset method as an Action chain as below –
drag_and_drop_by_offset(element, 100, 200)
How to use drag_and_drop_by_offset Action Chain method in Selenium Python ?
To demonstrate, drag_and_drop_by_offset method of Action Chains in Selenium Python. Let’ s visit https://www.neveropen.co.za/ 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 neveropen.co.za # get element element = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Courses") # create action chain object action = ActionChains(driver) # drag_and_drop_by_offset the item action.drag_and_drop_by_offset(element, 100, 200) # perform the operation action.perform() |
Output –
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