Working with context menus

A context menu (also known as a shortcut, a popup, or a pop-up menu) is a menu displayed on a web page that appears when a user performs a right-click mouse operation. For example, here is a jQuery contextMenu plug-in from http://bit.ly/1CAV05I, which displays the editing menu when a user performs a right-click operation.

The Selenium WebDriver Actions class provides the contextClick() method to perform a right-click operation. In this recipe, we will explore how to automate interaction on a context menu.

How to do it...

Let's implement a test that will open a context menu and select one of the menu options using the Actions class:

@Test
public void testContextMenu() {
  WebElement clickMeElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.context-menu-one.box.menu-1"));
  WebElement editMenuItem = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("li.context-menu-item.icon-edit"));

  Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
  builder.contextClick(clickMeElement)
    .moveToElement(editMenuItem...