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user3162976
user3162976

Reputation: 381

'sendKeys' are not working in Selenium WebDriver

I am not able to put any value in my application using WebDriver. My application is using frames.

I am able to clear the value of my textbox with driver.findElement(By.name("name")).clear();, but I'm unable to put any value using driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");. The click command works for another button on the same page.

Upvotes: 38

Views: 149480

Answers (13)

Rabhi salim
Rabhi salim

Reputation: 506

In my case, I had some actions.keyDowns(Keys.CONTOL).XXXX;

But I forgot to add the keyUp for that button and that prevented from sending keys and resulted in weird behaviors

Adding X.keyUp() after the x.keyDown() fixed the issue

Upvotes: 1

stevie_c
stevie_c

Reputation: 990

I had a similar problem recently and tried some of the suggestions above, but nothing worked. In the end it fell back on a brute-force retry which retries if the input box wasn't set to what was expected.

I wanted to avoid thread.sleep for obvious reasons and saw different examples of it failing that looked like some kind of race or timing condition.

public void TypeText(string id, string text)
{
    const int numberOfRetries = 5;
    for (var i = 1; i < numberOfRetries; i++)
    {
        try
        {
            if (TryTypeText())
                return;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            if (i == numberOfRetries)
                throw;
        }
    }

    bool TryTypeText()
    {
        var element = _webDriver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
        element.Click();
        element.Clear();
        element.SendKeys(text);
        if (element.TagName.ToLower() == "input"
            && !DoesElementContainValue(element, text, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000)))
        {
            throw new ApplicationException($"Unable to set the type the text '{text}' into element with id {id}. Value is now '{element.GetAttribute("value")}'");
        }
        return true;
    }
}

private bool DoesElementContainValue(IWebElement webElement, string expected, TimeSpan timeout)
{
    var wait = new WebDriverWait(_webDriver, timeout);
    return wait.Until(driver =>
    {
        try
        {
            var attribute = webElement.GetAttribute("value");
            return attribute != null && attribute.Contains(expected);
        }
        catch (StaleElementReferenceException)
        {
            return false;
        }
    });
}

Upvotes: 0

sathish p
sathish p

Reputation: 229

Before sendkeys(), use the click() method (i.e., in your case: clear(), click(), and sendKeys()):

driver.findElement(By.name("name")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.name("name")).click(); // Keep this click statement even if you are using click before clear.
driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");

Upvotes: 8

Abhinav Saxena
Abhinav Saxena

Reputation: 3924

I experienced the same issue and was able to collect the following solution for this:

  1. Make sure element is in focus → try to click it first and enter a string.
  2. If there is some animation for this input box, apply some wait, not static. you may wait for an element which comes after the animation. (My case)
  3. You can try it out using Actions class.

Upvotes: 2

cralfaro
cralfaro

Reputation: 5948

I had a similar problem too, when I used

getDriver().findElement(By.id(idValue)).clear();
getDriver().findElement(By.id(idValue)).sendKeys(text);

The value in "text" was not completely written into the input. Imagine that "Patrick" sometimes write "P" another "Pat",...so the test failed

The fix is a workaround and uses JavaScript:

((JavascriptExecutor)getDriver()).executeScript("$('#" + idValue + "').val('" + value + "');");

Now it is fine.

Instead of

driver.findElement(By.id("idValue")).sendKeys("text");

use,

((JavascriptExecutor)getDriver()).executeScript("$('#" + "idValue" + "').val('" + "text" + "');");

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

IRSHAD
IRSHAD

Reputation: 2933

I have gone with the same problem where copy-paste is also not working for that text box.

The below code is working fine for me:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
String mobNo = "99xxxxxxxx";
WebElement mobileElementIrs = 
driver.findElement(By.id("mobileNoPrimary"));
mobileElementIrs.click();
mobileElementIrs.clear();
mobileElementIrs.sendKeys(mobNo);

Upvotes: 0

Sandy
Sandy

Reputation: 11717

Generally I keep a temporary variable. This should work.

var name = element(by.id('name'));
name.clear();
name.sendKeys('anything');

Upvotes: -2

andyssundaypink
andyssundaypink

Reputation: 421

I also had that problem, but then I made it work by:

myInputElm.click();
myInputElm.clear();
myInputElm.sendKeys('myString');

Upvotes: 40

SATYA
SATYA

Reputation: 52

First pass the driver control to the frame using:

  driver.switchTo().frame("pass id/name/index/webelement");

After that, perform the operation which you want to do on the webelement present inside the frame:

 driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");

Upvotes: 0

Russell Bradley
Russell Bradley

Reputation: 485

Try using JavaScript to sendkeys().

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("name"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

More information on JavaScript Executor can be found at JavascriptExecutor - Selenium.

Upvotes: -1

OPY
OPY

Reputation: 15

Use JavaScript to click in the field and then use sendkeys() to enter values.

I had a similar problem in the past with frames. JavaScript is the best way.

Upvotes: 1

Robbie Wareham
Robbie Wareham

Reputation: 3448

Try clicking on the textbox before you send keys.

It may be that you need to trigger an event on the field before input and hopefully the click will do it.

Upvotes: 4

Dexter1759
Dexter1759

Reputation: 51

Clicking the element works for me too, however, another solution I found was to enter the value using JavaScript, which doesn't require the element to have focus:

var _element= driver.FindElement(By.Id("e123"));
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value', 'textBoxValue')", _element);

Upvotes: 3

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