How to submit Web Page Form with Selenium WebDriver in Java?

You can follow this tutorial to enter input data and submit a Web page form with Selenium WebDriver.

Several methods from Selenium WebDriver classes will be used:

• driver.get() - Loads a new Web page from the given URL in the current browser window. This is done using an HTTP GET operation, and the method will block until the load is complete.
• driver.findElement() - Searches and returns the first HTML element that matches the given criteria.
• By.tagName() - Returns a match criteria to search for HTML elements.
• input.sendKeys() - Simulates a user typing data into an INPUT element of a FORM element.
• form.submit() - Submits the FORM element to the Website.

1. Enter the following program, FormSubmit.java:

// FormSubmit.java
// Copyright (c) FYIcenter.com 
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
public class FormSubmit {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      WebDriver driver = WebDriverLoader.load(args[0]);
      driver.get("http://sqa.fyicenter.com");

    // get the first "form" element in the page.
      WebElement form = driver.findElement(By.tagName("form"));

    // get the input element of the form.
    WebElement query = form.findElement(By.name("Q"));
    query.sendKeys("selenium");
    
    // submit form
     form.submit();
    String url = driver.getCurrentUrl();

      System.out.println("Test Case - Submit a search:");
      System.out.println("   Actual Value: "+url);
      System.out.println("   Expected Value: ..Q=selenium...");
      if (url.contains("Q=selenium")) {
         System.out.println("   Test Result: Passed");
      } else {
         System.out.println("   Test Result: Failed");
      }

    // pause for 1 minute before closing
    try {
     Thread.sleep(60*1000);
      } catch (Exception e) {
    }
      driver.quit();
   }
}

2. Compile and run it with the Selenium Client JAR file.

C:\fyicenter> javac -classpath \
   .;\fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar \
   FormSubmit.java

C:\fyicenter> java -classpath \
   .;\fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\guava-25.0-jre.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okhttp-3.11.0.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okio-1.14.0.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\commons-exec-1.3.jar \
   FormSubmit Chrome
   
...
Test Case - Submit a search:
   Actual Value: http://sqa.fyicenter.com/index.php?Q=selenium
   Expected Value: ..Q=selenium...
   Test Result: Passed

As you can see, we are able to enter a search criteria and submit the FORM element without any problem with Chrome WebDriver.

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