17. Simulate pressing of Multiple Keys (using chord)

One of the nice feature in selenium webdriver is it allows us to simulate pressing of multiple keys using a method called "chord"

Here is the explanation of chord method:

Simulate pressing many keys at once in a "chord". Takes a sequence of Keys.XXXX or strings; appends each of the values to a string, and adds the chord termination key (Keys.NULL) and returns the resultant string. 

In the below example i am going to show how to perform Copy and Paste using Selenium webdriver using Actions + Keys + chord.

Below is scenario:
1. Open https://accounts.google.com/signup
2. Type something in FirstName
3. Copy the content in FirstName field (CTRL+c)
4. Paste same thing in LastName field (CTRL+v

Note: Similar way you can use different keywords.

package Others;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class chord_keyword { 

            public WebDriver driver; 

            @Test

            public void testKeys_Chord() throws Exception {

                        driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/signup");

                        //Element definitions for FirstName and LastName

                        WebElement txtFName=driver.findElement(By.name("FirstName"));

                        WebElement txtLName=driver.findElement(By.name("LastName"));

                        //Type "webdriver" in First Name

                        txtFName.sendKeys("webdriver");

                        //Create an object for Actions Class

                        Actions a = new Actions(driver);

                        //select the value which is typed in FirstName field

                        a.sendKeys(txtFName, Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"a")).perform();

                        //Performing copy action using CTRl+C

                        a.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"c")).perform();

                        //Performing paste action using CTRL+V in LastName field

                        a.sendKeys(txtLName, Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"v")).perform();

                        Thread.sleep(2000);

            }

            @BeforeClass

            public void beforeClass()

            {

                        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");   

                        driver = new ChromeDriver();

                        driver.manage().window().maximize();

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

            }

            @AfterClass

            public void afterClass() throws Exception

            {

                        driver.quit();

            }

}