Sending Tab and Enter Keys with WebDriverJS

Question

This seems kinda basic but it has been giving me nothing but trouble. I have a UL LI list that I have styled as tabs. When I test in browser when I click and give focus to the second tab then click the TAB key on the keyboard and enter it gives focus to the 3rd tab and selects it.

I am trying to simulate this using WebDriverJS with the following coffeescript code in my test using chai, onecolor, etc. The part is that giving me the problem is with I can get all normal characters to go fine but none of the special characters seems to work in my sauce labs selenium using this documentation JSON WIRE PROTOCOL. The implementation I am using is from http://webdriver.io/ and the tests are running in https://saucelabs.com/.

  it 'tab key and enter works', (done) ->
    @timeout 10000
    @driver.waitFor '.tab.active', 10000, =>
      @driver.addValue '.tab:nth-child(2)', ['U+E004', 'U+E007'], (err) =>
        @driver.getElementCssProperty 'css selector', '.tab:nth-child(3)', 'background-color', (err, backgroundColor) =>
          @driver.getElementCssProperty 'css selector', '.tab:nth-child(3)', 'color', (err, color) =>
            onecolor('#ffffff').cssa().should.equal backgroundColor
            onecolor('#000000').cssa().should.equal color
            done()

Answer 1

You can use all kinds of unicode characters. To do so you need to set the name of the key as input value (case sensitive). For example:

client.addValue('.tab:nth-child(2)',['Tab','Enter']) // press TAB + ENTER

or

client.addValue('.tab:nth-child(2)',['Meta','c']) // copy text into clipboard

If you don't want to link the keypress action to any input field you can use the keys protocol command to do this action:

client.keys(['Meta','c'])