Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Performing double-click on an element

There will be elements in a web application that need double-click events fired for performing some actions. For example, double-clicking on a row of a table will launch a new window. The Advanced User Interaction API provides a method to perform double-click.

In this recipe, we will use the Actions class to perform double-click operations.

How to do it...

Let's create a test that locates an element for which a double-click event is implemented. When we double-click on this element, it changes its color.

@Test public void testDoubleClick() throws Exception { WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55228056/DoubleClickDemo.html"); WebElement message = driver.findElement(By.id("message")); ...