Book Image

Selenium Essentials

By : Prashanth Sams
Book Image

Selenium Essentials

By: Prashanth Sams

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)

The Selenium IDE clipboard


Copying snippets through Clipboard Format is one of the quickest ways to obtain instantly generated scripts. Here, a snippet may contain one or two lines of code. The following screenshot displays different types of export formats available under the Clipboard Format option:

Launch the Selenium IDE, hover your mouse over the Clipboard Format option from the Options menu, and select the preferred combination format.

An example of a combination format is Java/JUnit 4/WebDriver. In general, the HTML snippet is set as default. The following screenshot shows a row being copied from the Test Case pane:

Copy the following row from the Test Case pane (as shown in the preceding screenshot) and paste it as a code snippet:

driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfq")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfq")).sendKeys("prashanthsams");