Atata - How to send keys to a page

Question

I am new to Atata and trying to send say a TAB key to a page and verify the contents which is higlighted (like say on a Google page) . I know we can do like below on say a page using Press but could not figure a way to send the special keys like TAB , CTRL, ENTER and all

Go.To<ContactPage>().Press("abc");

Answer 1

You should use Keys class from OpenQA.Selenium namespace that contains all necessary keys, like below:

Go.To<ContactPage>().Press(Keys.Tab);
// Or
Go.To<ContactPage>().Press("abc" + Keys.Tab);

There is also unique Atata triggers feature. There are [PressEnter], [PressTab], [PressEscape] and [PressKeys("abc")] attributes. Trigger attribute will automatically press the specified key(s) after the value is set to control. For example:

public class SearchPage : Page<_>
{
    [FindById("search-query")]
    [PressEnter] // Adds trigger.
    public TextInput<_> Query { get; private set; }
}

And then test:

Go.To<SearchPage>().
    Query.Set("abc"); // Enter will be pressed after "abc" text is set.