Right Click in Selenium WebDriver

Hello friends, quite often during automation we need to right-click or context-click an element. Usually, this action is followed up by pressing the UP/DOWN arrow keys and ENTER key to select the desired context menu element.

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To right click in Selenium, we make use of the Actions class. The Actions class provided by Selenium Webdriver is used to generate complex user gestures including right click, double click, drag and drop, etc.

Code Snippet to Right click in Selenium

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("elementId"));
action.contextClick(element).perform();

Here, we are instantiating an object of the Actions class. After that, we pass the WebElement to be right-clicked as a parameter to the contestClick() method present in the Actions class. Then, we call the perform() method to perform the generated action.

Sample Code to right-click an Element

For the demonstration of the right-click action, we will be launching Sample Site for Selenium Learning. Then we will right-click a textbox after which its context menu will get displayed, asserting that right click action is successfully performed.

package seleniumTutorials;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
public class RightClick {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException{
		WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
		
		//Launching Sample site
		driver.get("https://artoftesting.com/samplesiteforselenium");
		
		//Right click in the TextBox
		Actions action = new Actions(driver);
		WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.id("fname"));
		action.contextClick(searchBox).perform();
		
		//Thread.sleep just for user to notice the event
		Thread.sleep(3000);
		
		//Closing the driver instance
		driver.quit();
	}
}

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