In Selenium how do I find the “Current” object

Question

I would like for Selenium to navigate a menu via arrow keys--Starting with clicking the top menu item then pressing "DOWN", "DOWN", ...

The problem is that you have to always supply a specific element to send the "DOWN" to.

Is there any way to get the current element?

I tried:

by.xpath(".")

but it said that the expression was unrecognized or didn't return a proper object.

I expect I'm jsut missing some stupid trick.

Answer 1

In Selenium 2.0, if you are using WebDriver to drive the tests in the browser, you can use the WebDriver.TargetLocator class to get the element in focus, in a window/frame:

WebDriver driver = ... // initialize the driver
WebElement currentElement = driver.switchTo().activeElement();

If no element is in focus, the active element would turn out to be the body of the document being displayed, which might be the case when you launch a new page, for instance. When you invoke methods like click , sendKeys etc. you'll find the WebElement returned by the above invocation will always represent the element in focus.

This was tested using FirefoxDriver , and I would suspect that the same would be true of other drivers, except for the HtmlUnitDriver and similar drivers that do not use a full-fledged browser under the hood.

Answer 2

在蟒蛇中：

element = driver.switch_to.active_element

Answer 3

Don't know of a more straightforward way than accessing document.activeElement

How do I test which element has the focus in Selenium RC?

Answer 4

In Ruby/Capybara:

page.driver.browser.switch_to.active_element

Note that this returns a Selenium::WebDriver::Element not a Capybara::Node::Element .