Right Click (Context Click) Action

How it works

actions.contextClick(element).perform() presses and releases the right mouse button over the element, firing mousedown with the right button and then contextmenu. The right-click button on the Buttons page reacts to that right-button mousedown and rewrites its label.

Selenium can only see what the page draws. The browser's own context menu, with items like "Back" and "Inspect", is outside the page and cannot be clicked with WebDriver. Custom context menus that a web app draws in HTML are ordinary elements and can be found and clicked after the right click.

A right click does not block the page the way an alert does. After it, other elements on the page can be found and used as normal.

About the assignment

The starter gives you an Actions object and the right-click button. You read its label, right-click it, and read the label again.

What you will do

1. 1Read the right-click button's label and print it after Before:.
2. 2Right-click it with contextClick() and perform().
3. 3Read the label once more and print it after After:.

Common mistakes

• Using click()

  A left click presses the left button, and the page only reacts to a right-button press, so the label stays the same.

• Trying to use the browser's menu

  Native menu items cannot be located. Test what the app does on right click, not the browser's menu.

• Calling contextClick() without perform()

  Nothing happens, and no error says so.

In a real test suite

Related lessons

• Double Click ActionDouble-click, the other special click on this page.
• Explicit Wait - Element VisibleWait for a custom menu to appear after the right click.
• Drag and Drop with the Actions ClassDrag and drop with Actions.

To try one of these calls on any page without a task, open the Online Selenium Java Compiler.

Starter code

The editor above opens with this code. Fill in the TODO lines, then run and submit it.

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://testkru.com/Elements/Buttons");
        
        Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
        WebElement button = driver.findElement(By.id("rightClick"));
        
        // TODO: Print initial text
        // TODO: Right-click the button
        // TODO: Print text after right-click
        
        driver.quit();
    }
}