How do I type ESC, ENTER and other keys?

[HellShuro]

How do I type ESC, ENTER and other keys?
I only see the up and down, left and right approach
Using self.send_Keys(Key.ESCAPE) has no effect

[HellShuro]

Or is it only possible in this way?

[mdmintz]

For using special keys, you can use:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
...
    ...
    self.send_keys(SELECTOR, Keys.ESCAPE)

But for hitting ENTER/RETURN, you can use \n. Example:

self.type("input#password", "secret_sauce\n")

[akunteseterwork]

@mdmintz But how to press Keys multiple times without specifying element?

Say, i want like this

But it doesn't work.
I've tried combining with the traditional selenium with actionchains but it just gave me another error, also it opens 2 browsers since i call for driver and self.

[mdmintz]

A selector must always be specified to attach the action to. You can use html or body for the page when you don't want to use a specific element on the page.

Example:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
self.send_keys("html", Keys.TAB)

[mdmintz]

Using Keys.TAB changes the active element. Then to click the active element, use:

self.click_active_element()

[akunteseterwork]

YOU'RE A GENIOUS!
Thank you so much, hope you have a great day (y)

[wackydude]

Is there a self.send_keys_active_element("whatevs")? Or maybe make send_keys have a default selector of active_element? so if it gets 2 strings, first one is selector and second string is text to type but if only 1 string is provided, assume selector is active_element and provided string is text to type?

[mdmintz]

@wackydude: self.send_keys(self.get_active_element_css(), "TEXT")

self.get_active_element_css() was added this week, so make sure you have the latest SeleniumBase first.

[ksingha161]

hey @mdmintz how can we press keys in sb.cdp?

[mdmintz]

Depends on which keys. Most keys can be pressed with sb.cdp.type(selector, text). There are some working escape sequences such as \n or \r for Enter and \b for Backspace. For other keys like ESC, you may need PyAutoGUI.

[ksingha161]

I tried sb.cdp.press_keys("//input[@id='gn-search-input'] \n", text) but it does not seem to work

[mdmintz]

The "\n" should go with the text, not the selector. And you should be using CSS selectors with CDP Mode (not XPath).

[ksingha161]

Tried
germain = "Paris saint germain\n" sb.cdp.press_keys("input#gn-search-input", germain)

but doesn't seem to work. Pardon me if i'm missing something, i'm new to this amazing project. just need to explore it fully

[mdmintz]

If "\n" didn't work, and "\r" didn't work, then use the PyAutoGUI methods for that, eg: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/examples/raw_antibot_login.py