How to press tab key in selenium webdriver in Java?

We can press TAB key or any other key in Selenium Web driver by 2 ways in Java.

1. Using Keys.TAB
2. Using Actions

Using Keys.TAB

To use this method, you will have to import below class.

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys(Keys.TAB);

Using Actions Class

To use this method, you will have to import below classes.

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

Actions action = new Actions(driver); 

action.sendKeys(Keys.TAB).bui‌​ld().perform();

Complete Example in Java

package temp;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

@SuppressWarnings("unused")

public class SendKey {

public static void main(String [] arg) 

{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenuim\\chromedriver2.8.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

try{


driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(50,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/preferences");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

//driver.get("http://register.rediff.com/register/register.php");

Thread.sleep(2000);

WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='instant-radio']/div[3]/span"));
//using Keys.TAB
e.sendKeys(Keys.TAB);

//using Actions

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

action.sendKeys(e,Keys.TAB).build().perform();
}

catch(Exception e){

System.out.println("Exception - > " + e.toString());

}

finally{

driver.close();
driver.quit();

}

} //main function ends

}//class ends

Please note that we can also press any other key like ENTER, F1, F2, HOME, ARROW_UP, ESCAPE in same fashion.

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