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Asked: 2026-05-26T05:58:27+00:00

As part of a Selenium integration test, I wrote the two following lines in

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As part of a Selenium integration test, I wrote the two following lines in Ruby to simulate entering an e-mail address into a text field and “moving the focus away”:

  @driver.find_element(:id, "user_email").send_keys "user@example.com"
  @driver.find_element(:id, "some_other_element").click

The second line is not generic enough, because some_other_element might be unknown or non-existent. Thus, I wanted to replace the action of clicking another element with a TAB keystroke:

  @driver.find_element(:id, "user_email").send_keys :tab

However, this does not seem to work, the element user_email does not lose its focus as expected. Also replacing :tab with “\xEE\x80\x84” does not help. Does anyone know what could be wrong here? How can I move the focus away of an element without simulating a click somewhere else?

Thanks for any help,
Dominik

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know how to do it without simulating a click, but clicking on <body> worked for me. This solution may be generic enough.

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