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Reputation: 605

How do i select text from a text field using 'CTRL A ' using selenium webdriver?

I am using selenium webdriver with ruby.

clc = WAIT.until { driver.find_element(:id, 'embed-showembedcode') }
    driver.action.key_down(:control).click(clc).send_keys("a").key_up(:control).perform

This what i am using but i get a error.. 

{"testcase":"load: should check embed code","message":"erro
r - Cannot perform native interaction: Could not load native events component. \
n [\"[remote server] file:///C:/Users/nachiket/AppData/Local/Temp/webdriver-prof
ile20130705-5880-g873k8/extensions/[email protected]/components/driver_com
ponent.js:8738:in `generateErrorForNativeEvents'\", \"[remote server] file:///C:
/Users/nachiket/AppData/Local/Temp/webdriver-profile20130705-5880-g873k8/extensi
ons/[email protected]/components/driver_component.js:8771:in `FirefoxDrive

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2991

Answers (1)

Arup Rakshit
Arup Rakshit

Reputation: 118271

Humm.. Look Selenium::WebDriver::Element#text

So use :

elem = wait.until {
element = driver.find_element(:id, 'embed-showembedcode')
element if element.displayed?
}
puts elem.text # => target text will be printed here

Now to fix the error,I would suggest you always do some machine representation test as below. It is not needed that Selenium::WebDriver::Keys mentioned mapping will be good to work in your machine:

require "selenium-webdriver"

puts Selenium::WebDriver::Keys::KEYS
# => {:null=>"\uE000", :cancel=>"\uE001", :help=>"\uE002", :backspace=>"\uE003", :tab=>"\uE004", 
# :clear=>"\uE005", :return=>"\uE006",:enter=>"\uE007", :shift=>"\uE008",
# :left_shift=>"\uE008", :control=>"\uE009",.. }

elem = wait.until {
element = driver.find_element(:id, 'embed-showembedcode')
element if element.displayed?
}
driver.action.key_down("\uE009").click(elem).send_keys("a").key_up("\uE009").perform

Upvotes: 2

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