Unable to invoke compose screen in Gmail/Yahoomail using selenium

Question

Can some one help me out how can i invoke compose screen in Gmail/Yahoomail using selenium commands.

Tried with the following commands.

selenium.click("href=compose link");
selenium.click("name=Compose");

Answer 1

you can use webdriver and easily can invoke compose mail screen from gmail/yahoo. See the code below:

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select import selenium.webdriver.support.ui as ui from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException import unittest, time, re, os import HTMLTestRunner import xlrd

class gmail(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.base_url = "http://gmail.com"
        self.verificationErrors = []


    def test_gmail_login(self):
        driver=self.driver
        driver.get(self.base_url +"/")
        driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='Email']").clear()
        print "1. enter user name in username text field"
        driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='Email']").send_keys("xxxx")
        driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='Passwd']").clear()
        print "2.enter password in password text field"
        driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='Passwd']").send_keys("xxxx")
        print " 3. Click signIn button. it has redirect to corresponding gmail home page"
        driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='signIn']").click()
        print "click compose mail button"
        driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=':b7']/div/div").click()
        driver.save_screenshot('/compose.png')
        try:
         driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='z0']/div").click()

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