Right Click in Python Selenium

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Selenium provides the ability to automate right-click (context-click) operations using its ActionChains class. Right-clicking is essential for testing functionalities like context menus, custom event handlers, and hidden options in web applications. This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to perform right-click ( (context-click) operations in Selenium using Python.

Setting Up Selenium for Context-Click

To perform a context-click action, we need to:

  1. Identify the target element (the element where we want to perform a right-click).
  2. Use ActionChains to execute the context-click operation.

Importing Required Libraries

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

Locating Elements for Context-Click

To successfully perform a context-click operation, we must locate the element properly. The most common ways to locate elements in Selenium include:

  • By ID: driver.find_element(By.ID, "context-menu")
  • By Class Name: driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "context-item")
  • By XPath: driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='context-menu']")

Performing Context-Click in Selenium using ActionChains

The ActionChains class provides the context_click() method, which allows us to automate right-click interactions in web applications.

import time
# install pyautogui library using below command
# pip install pyautogui
import pyautogui
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

# Initialize WebDriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(15)

driver.get("https://www.globalsqa.com/demo-site/draganddrop/")
about_element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@id='menu']//a[text()='About']")

action = ActionChains(driver)
# Perform context-click (right-click)
action.context_click(about_element).perform()

# Using pyautogui library to perform action context click
time.sleep(5)
pyautogui.press("up")
time.sleep(2)
pyautogui.press("enter")
time.sleep(5)

driver.quit()

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