How to double click in Selenium

We don’t really get to use Double click on these days on web , I mean on web you don’t really need it , but you might want to have a negative test for some buttons or you actually have that functionality on double click a button does something else, so here is how to double click in Selenium.

How to double click in Selenium

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[anyxpath]"))).doubleClick().perform();

Or :

Actions act = new Actions(driver);
 act.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("locator"))).doubleClick().build().perform();

How to double click in Capybara:

When /^(?:|I )double[-\s]?click "([^"]*)"$/ do |locator|
  element = page.find(:xpath,"//a[contains(.,'#{locator}')]")
  page.driver.browser.mouse.double_click(element.native)
end

Double click using javascript executor

If from any reasons you can’t use the selenium double click method you can do it using Javascript Executor. For more information you can check the javascript events here.

You should use dblclick event

(JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("arguments 
[0].dblclick;", tdElement); 

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