Performing double-click on an element

There will be elements in a web application that need double-click events fired to perform some actions. For example, double-clicking on a row of a table will launch a new window. The Advanced User Interaction API provides a method to perform a double-click.

In this recipe, we will use the Actions class to perform double-click operations.

How to do it...

Let's create a test that locates an element for which a double-click event is implemented. When we double-click on this element, it changes its color:

package com.secookbook.examples.chapter04;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import org.junit.Test;

public class DoubleClickTest {
  @Test
  public void testDoubleClick() throws Exception {
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("http...