Selenium is a great web app automation tool which have several variants, I am using python to implement selenium on this https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/drag_and_drop, Selenium has an ActionChain that can do drag and drop, but this is not working in HTML5, the solution in another language (perhaps is ruby?) can be found here.
I have converted the solution into python for my reference in future should I encounter a HTML5 webapp that has drag and drop functionality.
First of all borrow the javascript from rcorreia in github then save it as a js script file, I followed the solution and save the script as dnd.js. Below is the code to solve the problem. I created two function for file operation, one is to find file i.e. dnd.js and the webdriver, another function is to open the dnd.js.
from selenium import webdriver
import os
def find_file(base="C:\\", name=None):
for root, dirs, filename in os.walk(base):
if name in filename:
return os.path.join(root, name)
def open_file(filepath):
with open(filepath, "r") as js:
return js.read()
# Solution from http://elementalselenium.com/tips/39-drag-and-drop
js_path = find_file(name="dnd.js")
js_script1 = open_file(js_path)
js_script2 = """
$('#column-a').simulateDragDrop({ dropTarget: '#column-b'});
"""
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=find_file(name="geckodriver.exe"))
driver.get('https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/drag_and_drop')
driver.execute_script(js_script1 + js_script2)
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