Select a text and perform a click action - selenium

Question

I'd like to select some text and perform a click action - like in Winword where we click Bold after selecting some text...
I have to select the text and click on the <B> bold icon in the textarea.
Any idea on how to do this using Selenium/Webdriver?

Answer 1

In Java, The Advanced User Interactions API has your answer.
// the element containing the text
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("text"));
// assuming driver is a well behaving WebDriver
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
// and some variation of this:
actions.moveToElement(element, 10, 5)
.clickAndHold()
.moveByOffset(30, 0)
.release()
.perform();

Answer 2

I tried with Action builder and played with offset. It worked for me.
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(wblmt,3,3).click().keyDown(Keys.SHIFT).moveToElement(wblmt,200, 0).click().keyUp(Keys.SHIFT).build().perform();

Answer 3

I tried this way and it did not work. Here are the codes:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.google.com.vn");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Google.com.vn')]"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(text, 10, 5).clickAndHold().moveByOffset(30, 0).release().perform();
I switched to JavascriptExecutor and it worked:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.google.com.vn");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Google.com.vn')]"));
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('style', 'background: blue;');", text);