I'm looking for a quick way to type and Enter or Return key in Selenium. Unfortunately the form I'm trying to test (not my own code so I can't modify) doesn't have a Submit button. When working with it manually, I just type ENTER or RETURN. I need to know how to do that with the Selenium type command as there is no button to click.

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys

WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

the import statement is for Java, for other languages it is maybe a different, for example python: from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

JAVA

driver.findElement(By.id("Value")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

OR,

driver.findElement(By.id("Value")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

PYTHON

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.find_element_by_name("Value").send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

OR,

driver.find_element_by_name("Value").send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

OR,

element = driver.find_element_by_id("Value")
element.send_keys("keysToSend")
element.submit()

RUBY

element = @driver.find_element(:name, "value")
element.send_keys "keysToSend"
element.submit

OR,

element = @driver.find_element(:name, "value")
element.send_keys "keysToSend"
element.send_keys:return

OR,

@driver.action.send_keys(:enter).perform
@driver.action.send_keys(:return).perform

C#

driver.FindElement(By.Id("Value")).SendKeys(Keys.Return);

OR,

driver.FindElement(By.Id("Value")).SendKeys(Keys.Enter);

Now that Selenium 2 has been released, it's a bit easier to send an Enter key, since you can do it with the send_keys method of the selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement class (this example code is in Python, but the same method exists in Java):

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> wd = webdriver.Firefox()
>>> wd.get("http://localhost/example/page")
>>> textbox = wd.find_element_by_css_selector("input")
>>> textbox.send_keys("Hello World\n")

You can use either of Keys.ENTER or Keys.RETURN. Here are some details :

Usage :

Java:

Using Keys.ENTER:

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
driver.findElement(By.id("element_id")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

Using Keys.RETURN

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
driver.findElement(By.id("element_id")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

Python:

Using Keys.ENTER:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.find_element_by_id("element_id").send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

Using Keys.RETURN

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.find_element_by_id("element_id").send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Keys.ENTER and Keys.RETURN both are from org.openqa.selenium.Keys, which extends java.lang.Enum<Keys> and implements java.lang.CharSequence

Enum Keys

Enum Keys is the representations of pressable keys that aren't text. These are stored in the Unicode PUA (Private Use Area) code points, 0xE000-0xF8FF.

Key Codes :

The special keys codes for them are as follows :

RETURN = u'\ue006'
ENTER = u'\ue007'

The implementation of all the Enum Keys are handled the same way.

Hence these is No Functional or Operational difference while working with either sendKeys(Keys.ENTER); or WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN); through Selenium.

Enter Key and Return Key

On computer keyboards, the Enter (or the Return on Mac OSX) in most cases causes a command line, window form, or dialog box to operate its default function. This is typically to finish an "entry" and begin the desired process, and is usually an alternative to pressing an OK button.

The Return is often also referred as the Enter and they usually perform identical functions; however in some particular applications (mainly page layout) Return operates specifically like the Carriage Return key from which it originates. In contrast, the Enter is commonly labelled with its name in plain text on generic PC keyboards.

References

Maurice Svay

When writing HTML tests, the ENTER key is available as ${KEY_ENTER}.

You can use it with sendKeys, here is an example:

sendKeys | id=search | ${KEY_ENTER}

Nirmal Patel

selenium.keyPress("css=input.tagit-input.ui-autocomplete-input", "13");

hoang nguyen

You just do this:

final private WebElement input = driver.findElement(By.id("myId"));
input.clear();
input.sendKeys(value); // the value we want to set to input
input.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

Greg Stewart

For those folks who are using WebDriverJS Keys.RETURN would be referenced as

webdriver.Key.RETURN

A more complete example as a reference might be helpful too:

var pressEnterToSend = function () {
    var deferred = webdriver.promise.defer();
    webdriver.findElement(webdriver.By.id('id-of-input-element')).then(function (element) {
        element.sendKeys(webdriver.Key.RETURN);
        deferred.resolve();
    });

    return deferred.promise;
};

driver.findElement(By.id("Value")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN); or driver.findElement(By.id("Value")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

search = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@type='text']")
search.send_keys(u'\ue007')

ENTER = u'\ue007'

refer selenium documentation 'Special Keys'

I just like to note that I needed this for my Cucumber tests and found out that if you like to simulate pressing the enter/return key, you need to send the :return value and not the :enter value (see the values described here)

For Selenium RC with Java:

selenium.keyPress("elementID", "\13");

For Selenium WebDriver(a.k.a. Selenium2) with java:

driver.findElement(By.id("elementID")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

OR,

driver.findElement(By.id("elementID")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

Another way to press Enter in WebDriver by using Actions class:

Actions action = new Actions(driver); 
action.sendKeys(driver.findElement(By.id("elementID")), Keys.ENTER).build().perform();

Plaban Dwivedy

if you are looking for "how to press enter key from keyboard in selenium webdriver(java)",then below code will definitely help you.

//assign key board object
Keyboard keyboard=((HasInputDevices) driver).getKeyboard();
//enter a key
keyboard.pressKey(Keys.ENTER);

There are following ways of pressing keys - C#:

Driver.FindElement(By.Id("Value")).SendKeys(Keys.Return);

OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions action = new OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions(Driver);
action.SendKeys(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Escape);

IWebElement body = GlobalDriver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));
body.SendKeys(Keys.Escape);

RNS

To enter keys using selenium First you need to import following library:

"import org.openqa.selenium.Keys"

then add this code where you want to enter key

"WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);"

You can replace RETURN with any keys from the list according to your requirement

Could be achieved using Action interface as well, in case of WebDriver -

WebElement username = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
username.sendKeys(searchKey);
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);
action.perform();

Abhijeet

Try to use XPATH for searching the element and then, the following code works:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='txtFilterContentUnit']")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

SoftwareTestingEnthusiast

For RUBY: -

driver.find_element(:id,"XYZ").send_keys:return

dexter

You can try :

selenium.keyPress("id="","\\13");

Anand

I had to send enter key in the middle of a text. So I passed the following text to send keys function to achieve 1\n2\n3

1\N{U+E007}2\N{U+E007}3

Kumrun Nahar Keya

For Selenium WebDriver using xpath (If the key is visible):

driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath of text field")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

or,

driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath of text field")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

If you are in this specific situation:

a) want to JUST press the key, but not have a specific webElement to click on

b) you are using Selenium 2 (webDriver)

Then the solution is:

    Actions builder = new Actions(webDriverInstance);
    builder.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN).perform();

JAVA/JavaScript:

You could probably do it this way also, non-natively:

public void triggerButtonOnEnterKeyInTextField(String textFieldId, String clickableButId)
{
  ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("
  elementId = arguments[0];
  buttonId = arguments[1];
  document.getElementById(elementId)
    .addEventListener("keyup", function(event) {
      event.preventDefault();
      if (event.keyCode == 13) {
          document.getElementById(buttonId).click();
      }
    });", textFieldId, clickableButId);
}

object.sendKeys("your message",Keys.ENTER);

it works

When You don't want to search any locator, You can use Robot class: eg:

            Robot robot = new Robot();
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
            robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

Jack 666

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

You can call submit() on the element object in which you entered your text.

Alternatively, you can specifically send the enter key to it as shown in this python snippet:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
element.send_keys(Keys.ENTER) # element is the WebElement object corresponding to the input field on the page

In Python-- Step 1. from selenium.webdriver.common import keys Step 2 driver.find_element_by_name("").send_keys(keys.Keys.ENTER)

Note --you have to write keys.keys.ENTER

For everyone using javascript / node, this worked for me:

driver.findElement(By.xpath('xpath')).sendKeys('ENTER');

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1629053/typing-enter-return-key-in-selenium

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Typing Enter/Return key in Selenium