What is actions class in web driver

71. What is actions class in web driver?

Actions class with web Driver help is Sliding element, Resizing an Element, Drag & Drop

Hovering a mouse, especially in a case when dealing with mouse over menus.

Dragging & Dropping an Element:

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 testDragandDrop {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

   WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

  driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/droppable/default.html"); 

  WebElement draggable = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='draggable']"));

  WebElement droppable = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='droppable']"));   

  Actions action = new Actions(driver); 

action.dragAndDrop(draggable, droppable).perform();

  }

}

Sliding an Element:

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 testSlider {

  /**

  * @param args

  * @throws InterruptedException

  */

 public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

   WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

  driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/slider/default.html"); 

  WebElement slider = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='slider']/a")); 

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);

  Thread.sleep(3000);

  action.dragAndDropBy(slider, 90, 0).perform();

  }

}

Re-sizing an Element:

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 testResizable {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

   WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

  driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/resizable/default.html");

    WebElement resize = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='resizable']/div[3]")); 

  Actions action = new Actions(driver);

  action.dragAndDropBy(resize, 400, 200).perform();

    }

}

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