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DewinDell
DewinDell

Reputation: 1028

selenium execute_script with newlines

I'm using selenium and Python and I am trying to execute a JS function that takes in a string like so:

browser.execute_script("foo('someString')")

This works when someString does not have any newlines. When there is a newline character the following happens:

\n     => Parse Error
\\n    => Newline is converted to a space
\r\n   => Parse Error
\\r\\n => Both characters are converted to a space

Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2790

Answers (2)

Sreekant Shenoy
Sreekant Shenoy

Reputation: 1640

The easy solution is to convert \n to unicode \u000a.

similar example:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('website_name').value='hello1\u000ahello2'")

Upvotes: 1

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369424

You can pass arguments to the javascript; those additional arguments are accessible using arguments:

browser.execute_script("foo(arguments[0])", 'someString')
browser.execute_script("foo(arguments[0])", 'string with \n is also ok!\n')

Upvotes: 5

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