How to simulate pressing enter in HTML text input with Selenium ?

Last Updated : 25 Jul, 2024

Selenium is an inbuilt module available in python that allows users to make automated suites and tests. We can build code or scripts to perform tasks automatically in a web browser using selenium. Selenium is used to test the software by automation. Also, programmers can create automated test cases for the software or app using the selenium.

By reading this tutorial, users will be able to simulate pressing enter in HTML text input with selenium. Also, we will write a simple code that can search text on the Wikipedia website automatically and perform automated login on the Geeksforgeeks website.

Prerequisite:

Users should have installed python 3.7+ in their system to work with the selenium. To install selenium run the below command on the terminal.

pip install selenium

Download chrome webdriver: Next, users need to download webdriver according to which browser they want to run automated software. Chrome webdriver is one of the best webdriver. Users can download chrome webdriver from here. While downloading the chrome webdriver, make sure that the webdriver version is compatible with the browser version.

To simulate the pressing enter, users can add the below line in the python automation script code.

HTML_ELEMENT.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

Search text using selenium on Wikipedia: In this part, we will cover that how users can open Wikipedia sites and search text automatically on Wikipedia or other websites using selenium.

Approach:

Import webdriver from selenium
Initialize webdriver path
Open any URL
Find the search element using any method from below
Input text into the search field
Press enter key to search input text

Example:

Python

# Python program to search automatically # on wikipedia using selenium  # Import webdriver from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from time import sleep, strftime  # Initialize webdriver object chromedriver_path = '<Chrome webdriver path>' webdriver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver_path)  try:     # Opening wikipedia website     webdriver.get("https://en.wikipedia.org")          # Finding the search field by id     input = webdriver.find_element_by_id("searchInput")          # Sending input text to search field     input.send_keys("Python")          # Pressing enter to search input text     input.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)     sleep(10)  finally:          # Closing the webdriver     webdriver.close()

Note: Don't forget to set the chrome web driver's path.

Output:

Log in automatically to GeeksForGeeks using the selenium module: In this part, we will cover that how users can log in to Geeksforgeeks using the selenium bot.

Approach:

Import webdriver from selenium
Initialize webdriver path
Open Geeksforgeeks URL
Find and press enter on the sign-in button
Find the username and password element on Geeksforgeeks website
Set username and password into the input field
Find the login button
Pressing enter or click on the login button

Example:

Python

# Python program to login to the Geeksforgeeks # using selenium  from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from time import sleep, strftime  chromedriver_path = '<chrome web driver path>' webdriver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver_path)  try:     # Opening the geeksforgeeks website     webdriver.get('https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/')          # Clicking on the sign in button     signIn = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector('#userProfileId > a')     signIn.click()     sleep(4)          # Finding the username input field and sending the username     username = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector('#luser')     username.send_keys('<Geeksforgeeks Username>')          # Finding the password input field and sending password     password = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector('#password')     password.send_keys('<Geeksforgeeks password>')       # Pressing enter on the signin button     button_login = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector(         '#Login > button')     button_login.click()     sleep(6)      finally:     webdriver.close()

Note: Don't forget to set web driver's path, Geeksforgeeks username, and password.