Drag and drop elements in selenium Python

Python-Selenium

In this article, we are going to learn how to Drag and drop elements in selenium Python. We will perform the drag and drop of a draggable element. We will make use of the Actionchains function from the selenium.webdriver module. We will use a website that will provide us with the droppable element and area to drop. This is only for learning purposes.

Environment & Requirements to drag and drop elements in selenium Python

How to Drag and drop element in selenium Python work

  • From the selenium module import webdriver, by module and actions module
  • Import time module also to wait for chrome at a given second.
  • Create a driver object which calls the browser
  • Webdriver. chrome Creates a new instance of the chrome driver. Starts the service and then creates new instance of chrome driver.
  • Now we pass the link of any site by using driver.get() method.
  • To go to a current tab I use the switch_to_frame method
  • Now I use two variable that store the element of drag and drop field.
  • After that, I used the drag and drop method and pass elements of the drag and drop field, and used perform a method that will perform drag and drop.
  • Now use time.sleep method to hold the driver in given time and then used closed method to close the browser.
//Program to Drag and drop elements in selenium Python  
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('https://jqueryui.com/droppable/')
driver.switch_to.frame(0)
source1 = driver.find_element(By.ID,'draggable')
target1 = driver.find_element(By.ID,'droppable')
actions2 = ActionChains(driver)
actions2.drag_and_drop(source1, target1).perform()
time.sleep(5)
driver.close()

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