How to press Ctrl+A to select all content in a page by Selenium WebDriver using Java

Question

I want to select all content by pressing Ctrl+a from keyboard by using WebDriver with Java. I wrote the following code:

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Answer 1

To Select whole page:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body")).sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"));

cssSelector is faster than xpath. So it could be done by using CSSPath also. Below is the way:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"));