How to Perform Context Click / Right Click using Actions in Selenium?
This article will present you with a complete idea about how to perform right click and do any operations using Actions Class in selenium web driver.
During testing of an application ,we may need to do right click /context click then select any options .This can be achieved in Selenium with the help of Actions Class.
Below are the steps mentioned for performing right click on any webElement/buttonÂ
Steps:
1)Instantiate an Actions class:Â Â
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
2) identify the webElement/Button where we have to perform right clickÂ
 WebElement webElement = driver.findElement(Any By strategy & locator);Â
3) Right click on the identified element/button and perform the click
actions.contextClick(webElement).perform();Â
We will understand right click actions with the help of below scenario
- Navigate to URL https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/
-  Find the ‘Submit’ button and do right click on the element
- Go to the options ‘copy’ and click
- Close the browser to end the program
Code Implementation
package com.test;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.io.IOException;
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 io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;
public class ContextClick {
public static WebDriver driver;
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException, AWTException {
// Create a new instance of the Chrome driver
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
// Launch the URL
driver.get("https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
Thread.sleep(3000);
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
// Identify submit button
WebElement submitButton = driver.findElement(By.id("idOfButton"));
// contextClick() method to do right click on the element
action.contextClick(submitButton).build().perform();
Thread.sleep(2000);
// Click on copy button
Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_DOWN);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_DOWN);
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
System.out.println("copy button is clicked");
// close the driver
driver.close();
}
}