I have a question about is it possible to simulate a mouse scroll wheel click in python selenium ( when you click on a link a new tab opens in the browser ) or something similar. The website I am using is javascript based so I can`t really see physical links.
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You need to execute javascript code. Mouse scroll wheel click has 1 as number representation according to MouseEvent.button documentation:
0: Main button pressed, usually the left button or the un-initialized state
1: Auxiliary button pressed, usually the wheel button or the middle button (if present)
2: Secondary button pressed, usually the right button
3: Fourth button, typically the Browser Back button
4: Fifth button, typically the Browser Forward button
Your javascript code will be
var mouseWheelClick = new MouseEvent( "click", { "button": 1, "which": 1 });
document.getElementById('#elementToClick').dispatchEvent(mouseWheelClick)
Then just simply
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.execute_script(javascript_code)
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You need to execute some javascript code.
browser.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,500)")
time.sleep(3)
browser.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,500)")
time.sleep(3)
This command to scroll the mouse down two times.