How To Simulate Key Presses Only To Selenium Browser

Asked Jan 11 '20 at 17:56

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I'm writing my first program and this is my first time here, I'm sorry if I'm not explaining something properly.

I want to use one extension the extension's shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+A.

How can I simulate those clicks only to the Selenium Browser and not to the whole PC or the Element on the page (I want to be able to run the program in the background).

I've tried driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'a' + Keys.SHIFT) But I guess that doesn't work because it simulates keyboard presses to the body of the page and not to the browser, so the extension can't recognize it.

edited Jan 13 '20 at 16:37

asked Jan 11 '20 at 17:56

Stoopid Newbie

I don't think this is possible. Selenium sends its input through regular keyboard and mouse events. – ChrisGPT was on strike Jan 11 '20 at 17:59
@Chris Thank you!, that's quite unfortunate – Stoopid Newbie Jan 11 '20 at 18:09
You can try with Robot class after launching browser with selenium. Here is an example to use Robot class. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9047710/how-to-send-ctrlz-keyevent-in-java-using-robot-class – Muzzamil Jan 11 '20 at 19:34

How To Simulate Key Presses Only To Selenium Browser

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