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Joshua Muheim
Joshua Muheim

Reputation: 13195

Capybara send_keys without sending click event?

It seems that using send_keys in Capybara always first fires a click element on the given input.

Is there a way to bypass this, e.g. when I know I already have set focus to the input (and for some reason don't want a click event to be fired)?

By the way, I'm using PhantomJS.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 517

Answers (1)

Thomas Walpole
Thomas Walpole

Reputation: 49900

Poltergeist clicks the element before sending keys to it to ensure it is the element in focus - https://github.com/teampoltergeist/poltergeist/blob/master/lib/capybara/poltergeist/client/browser.coffee#L365 . As you can see from the code the click is skipped if the element already contains a selection which is defined by https://github.com/teampoltergeist/poltergeist/blob/master/lib/capybara/poltergeist/client/browser.coffee#L365 . So the only supported way to skip the click would be to ensure the selection is already in the element you want to send keys to.

Upvotes: 2

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