emulate TAB button

keats

Hi Narayan,

How to emulate a TAB button on your keyboard in sahi script?

I actually wanted to add new row to a table, that can happen when i press tab button. We have javascript in application which does that.
But i am wondering how to key press TAB button using sahi script.

Please let me know.

narayan

Hi Keats,
_keyPress(element, 9) should have done it, but it does not as seen on firefox. Will have a look at this.

keats

Hi Narayan,

Any idea about this yet?
For the above issue i got through with a work around then.
Now i was trying to get below things to work.
_keyPress(element, 9); - Tab
_keyPress(element, 115);-F4

It doesn't seem to work. Can you help me with this?

narayan

Keats,

If you wish to move focus from one element to another using tab, this method won't work. The reason is that the browser does not interpret the tab key the same way as it interprets other keys. So emulating a keypress will not work. If your intention is to just remove focus from an element, it will automatically happen when you click or setValue in some other element (from the January 2010 versions). You can also explicitly call _blur(element) or _removeFocus(element) if you want.

The function keys may also not work the same way. The new _keyPress actually takes an array also as the second parameter.

_keyPress(element, [keyCode, charCode]).

You can go to http://sahi.co.in/demo/eventSequence.htm to find the keycodes and charcodes. (Click "Add event listeners", check keyCode and charCode, and press F4 in the textbox on the right. You will see the various events in the textarea below it.)

You could try
_keyPress(element, [115, 0]);

Regards,
Narayan

sunny

Hi Narayan,

I tried with the above code, but it is not working.
please suggest a way how to press tab key, actually i need to get focus on password field.

Thanks,
Sarathy CR

dvasquez

Hi!
I've managed to simulate the tab key by typing something + "\t" inside a field (using the java driver).
It doesn't work just with "\t" you need to type some text before.

element.type(value + "\t");