Selenium ActionChains using Python with examples

ActionChains are used to automate interactions like mouse movement, mouse button action, key press, context menu, drag and drop etc. These are typically complex operations which can't be performed directly with web driver elements.

Using ActionChains objects, specified actions are pushed into a queue and perform operation is called to execute these one by one.

Example 1 : Context Menu

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

import time

CHROME_DRIVER = r"./browser_drivers/chromedriver"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROME_DRIVER)

driver.implicitly_wait(10)

driver.get("https://www.spicejet.com")

time.sleep(4)

# Initialize ActionChains Object

actionchains = ActionChains(driver)

login_element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "ctl00_HyperLinkLogin")

club_members_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[text()="SpiceClub Members"]')

actionchains.move_to_element(login_element)

actionchains.move_to_element(club_members_element)

actionchains.perform()

member_login_element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Member Login")

member_login_element.click()

Example 2 : Drag and Drop

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

import time

# Setup the driver

CHROME_DRIVER = r"./browser_drivers/chromedriver"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROME_DRIVER)

# Load the example website and maximize the window

driver.get("https://jqueryui.com/droppable/")

driver.maximize_window()

# Switch to frame holding our source / target elements

driver.switch_to.frame(0)

# Identify Source and Target elements

source = driver.find_element_by_id("draggable")

target = driver.find_element_by_id("droppable")

# Initialize ActionChains Object

actionchains = ActionChains(driver)

# Perform drag and drop

actionchains.drag_and_drop(source,target)

actionchains.perform()

# Close the driver

time.sleep(4)

driver.close()