Press Keys in Selenium – ENTER, TAB, SPACE, CONTROL, ARROW, FUNCTION Keys

During automation, we are often required to press enter, control, tab, arrow keys, function keys, and other non-text keys as well from the keyboard. In this post, we will find how to simulate the pressing of these non-text keys using Selenium WebDriver in Java. Here, we will be using the Keys enum provided by Selenium WebDriver for all the non-text keys.

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Press Enter/Return Key in Selenium

For pressing Enter key over a textbox we can pass Keys.ENTER or Keys.RETURN to the sendKeys method for that textbox.

WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(By.id("idOfElement"));
textbox.sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(By.id("idOfElement"));
textbox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

Similarly, we can use Keys enum for different non-text keys and pass them to the sendKeys method. The following table has an entry for each of the non-text key present in a keyboard.

Keyboard’s Key	Keys enum’s value
Arrow Key – Down	Keys.ARROW_DOWN
Arrow Key – Up	Keys.ARROW_UP
Arrow Key – Left	Keys.ARROW_LEFT
Arrow Key – Right	Keys.ARROW_RIGHT
Backspace	Keys.BACK_SPACE
Ctrl Key	Keys.CONTROL
Alt key	Keys.ALT
DELETE	Keys.DELETE
Enter Key	Keys.ENTER
Shift Key	Keys.SHIFT
Spacebar	Keys.SPACE
Tab Key	Keys.TAB
Equals Key	Keys.EQUALS
Esc Key	Keys.ESCAPE
Home Key	Keys.HOME
Insert Key	Keys.INSERT
PgUp Key	Keys.PAGE_UP
PgDn Key	Keys.PAGE_DOWN
Function Key F1	Keys.F1
Function Key F2	Keys.F2
Function Key F3	Keys.F3
Function Key F4	Keys.F4
Function Key F5	Keys.F5
Function Key F6	Keys.F6
Function Key F7	Keys.F7
Function Key F8	Keys.F8
Function Key F9	Keys.F9
Function Key F10	Keys.F10
Function Key F11	Keys.F11
Function Key F12	Keys.F12