Enter key press is not working in Firefox

Question

I have a scenario which involves pressing Enter key in the webpage. For Chrome my code works fine but when it comes to Firefox my code is not working. Please help me with an idea so that I can automate Enter key press in Selenium Python for Firefox driver.

Below are the codes that I have used.

browser1.find_element_by_xpath("path").send_keys(u'\ue007')
browser1.find_element_by_xpath("path").send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

Are you specifying to Selenium that you're going to be using Firefox as the browser? `driver = webdriver.Firefox()` — Harrison, Sep 05 '16 at 13:26
Why are you not using click instead as `browser1.find_element_by_xpath("path").click()`?? — Saurabh Gaur, Sep 05 '16 at 13:28
Or could you us tell for what purpose you want to use this?? — Saurabh Gaur, Sep 05 '16 at 13:30
ya.. i am specifying. And importantly i need to use it to enter values in a field. The requirement itself is like press enter after entering each value. — Bhuvaneshwari K, Sep 05 '16 at 14:27
So what is the problem occurred with your code?? Is there any exception during sendKeys?? — Saurabh Gaur, Sep 05 '16 at 16:20
@BhuvaneshwariKumarRaja - Please post the link of the webpage you are working on and also your code. This will make it easier for people to help you and give you an answer. — MasterJoe, Sep 05 '16 at 21:05

MikeJRamsey56 · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-08T20:19:11.560

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Try

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.find_element_by_name("Value").send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Note that RETURN = '\ue006'

EDIT

Keep Explicit and Implicit Waits always in mind when programming WebDriver. Be mindful of the Programming Language Preference button near the top.

EDIT

Try

WebElement anElement = driver.find_element_by_name("Value")
anElement.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

If you have changed the selection criteria to wait for the element to be enabled then keep that change. When Selenium is having timing issues I find that separating the action from the find often helps.

edited Jun 08 '17 at 20:19

answered Sep 05 '16 at 22:28

MikeJRamsey56

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Post your code and the console log showing the error. – MikeJRamsey56 Nov 21 '16 at 20:52
Hi, I have called the enter key press code twice. Its working now. Thanks browser1.find_element_by_xpath("path").send_keys(Keys.ENTER) calling the above line twice works fine. – Bhuvaneshwari K Jun 02 '17 at 11:40
@BhuvaneshwariKumarRaja It is likely that on the first pass the WebElement returned by the find_element_by_name is not ready to receive the input. You should fix this. One way is to add criteria to wait for the WebElement to be enabled. See [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9161773/how-can-i-get-selenium-web-driver-to-wait-for-an-element-to-be-accessible-not-j) SO Q&A. – MikeJRamsey56 Jun 02 '17 at 14:02
I have even added webdriver wait, even then if i use enter key press two times only it is working. – Bhuvaneshwari K Jun 08 '17 at 12:35

Enter key press is not working in Firefox

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