How to do Drag and Drop using Actions in Selenium?

This article will present you with a complete idea about how to drag and drop on a web page using Action Class in Selenium web driver.

Few web applications have the ability to automate the functionality of drag and drop, i.e. drag web elements from one end and drop them on a destination area or element.

In order to automate the drag and drop actions, We can use Actions Class used in Selenium WebDriver

This is an action performed with a mouse when a user moves (drags) a web element and then places (drops) it into a destination

Syntax for drag and drop.

The Actions class has two methods that support Drag and Drop. Let’s study them-

Actions.dragAndDrop(Sourcelocator, Destinationlocator).perform()

Let’s see what happens internally when we use above code

- clickAndHold(WebElement element) first performs click-and-hold without releasing at the location of the source element
- moveToElement(WebElement element) – Moves the mouse pointer to the middle of the web element without clicking.
- release(WebElement element) – Releases the mouse which was previously pressed
- build() – Generates a composite action containing all actions.
- perform()-perform() method performs the actions

We can use below syntax as well for drag and drop operations

//Creating object of Actions class

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);

//Building a drag and drop action

Action dragAndDrop = builder.clickAndHold(fromElement)
.moveToElement(toElement)
.release(toElement)
.build();

Please go through the below example to understand the flow.

Steps:

1. Open chrome browser
2. Navigate to URL “https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/
3. Drag webelement ‘Drag From’ object to ‘Drog To’ object
4. Close the browser

//Code Implementation

package com.test;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class DragAndDrop {

public static WebDriver driver;

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

// Create a new instance of the Chrome driver

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");

driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// Launch the URL

    driver.get("https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/");

 // To get source locator

WebElement source = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='Drag FROM']"));

// To get target locator

WebElement target = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='Drop TO']"));

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

//Building a drag and drop action and performing the action

action.dragAndDrop(source, target).build().perform();

}

}

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