Pressing Ctrl + A in Selenium WebDriver

Since <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>A</kbd> maps to ASCII code value 1 (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>B</kbd> to 2, up to, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Z</kbd> to 26).

Try:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Internal;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;

namespace SeleniumHqTest
{
class Test
{
IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost");
IWebElement el = driver.FindElement(By.Id("an_element_id"));
char c = '\u0001'; // ASCII code 1 for Ctrl-A
el.SendKeys(Convert.ToString©);
driver.Quit();
}
}

To click <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>A</kbd>, you can do it with Actions

Actions action = new Actions();
action.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(String.valueOf('\u0061')).perform();

\u0061 represents the character 'a'

\u0041 represents the character 'A'

To press other characters refer the unicode character table -

It works for me:

OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions action
= new OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions(browser);
action.KeyDown(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control)
.SendKeys("a").KeyUp(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control).Perform();

In Selenium for C#, sending `Keys.Control` simply toggles the **Control** key's state: if it's up, then it becomes down; if it's down, then it becomes up. So to simulate pressing **Control+A**, send `Keys.Control` twice, once before sending "a" and then after.

For example, if **we** is an input IWebElement, the following statement will select all of its contents:

`we.SendKeys(Keys.Control + "a" + Keys.Control);`

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

action.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("a").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).perform();

This method removes the extra call ( String.ValueOf() ) to convert unicode to string.

You could try this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(id("anything")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "a");