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indrajit narvekar
indrajit narvekar

Reputation: 143

How to write html text into text-area in robot framework?

I want to add the following code into a textarea input, how should I do this using Robot Framework?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 3847

Answers (1)

A. Kootstra
A. Kootstra

Reputation: 6981

The HTML string contains many characters that should normally be escaped. For this reason it's easier to load it from a regular text file into a variable and then output that variable into the desired textarea element.

In the below example this being done using an example site:

FillInForm.robot

*** Settings ***
Library    OperatingSystem
Library    Selenium2Library

Test Setup        Start Browser
Test Teardown     Close Browser
Suite Teardown    Close All Browsers


*** Test Cases ***
Fill Textarea with HTML code
    ${file_contents}    Get File    ./htmlcode.txt
    Input Text    name=longtext     ${file_contents}
    Sleep    3s

*** Keywords ***
Start Browser
    Open Browser    http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms08.htm    Chrome

htmlcode.txt

Contains the HTML code you want to insert.

Upvotes: 3

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