release 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 release method on Action Chains in Python Selenium. release method is used for releasing a held mouse button on an element.
Syntax –
release(on_element=None)
on_element – The element to mouse up. If None, releases 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 release method as an Action chain as below –
action.click(on_element=element) action.release(element)
How to use release Action Chain method in Selenium Python ?
To demonstrate, release 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 # 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) # release the item action.release(on_element = element) # perform the operation action.perform() |
Output –
