How to enter the text into 'textarea' tag using selenium?

Question

I want to enter the text "ABCD" as shown in the below image of https://translate.google.com/

Tried the following ways but failed.

1. sendKeys()--failed.

   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@id='sourceis']")).sendKeys("ABCD"); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@id='source-is']")).sendKeys(Keys.TAB"ABCD");

2. set the value property using JavaScriptExecutor--failed

   JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; js.executeScript("document.getElementById('source-is').setAttribute('value', 'ABCD')");

3. first clear() field and then sendKeys()--failed.

   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@id='source-is']")).clear(); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@id='source-is']")).sendKeys(Keys.TAB,"ABCD");

Please provide the solution to get it done.

Answer 1

What worked for me in the Selenium IDE Firefox (v68) extension:

• Command: execute script
• Target : document.getElementById('message').value = "Testmessage at " + new Date();
• Value : empty

Answer 2

Use This -

driver.findElement(By.id("source")).sendKeys("ABCD");

Answer 3

I don't know how you tried but the following code works:

driver.findElement(By.id("source")).sendKeys("your text to enter");