send_keys to hidden elements

[swan yam]

I want to send a text to a text box of a page.

 Here is hidden element on page from salesforce:

     <textarea class="chatterTopicsEnabled groupAtMentionsEnabled publishertextarea" 

      id="publishereditablearea" 

      name="publishereditablearea" 

      role="textbox" tabindex="0" 

      title="Topics" type="text" wrap="soft" 

      data-uidsfdc="112" style="height: 208px;">Topics</textarea>

      <input type="hidden" id="publisherprompttext" name="publisherprompttext" value="Topics">

My code by which i can click the text box but can do nothing to send text: 

    textbox = [tag for tag in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('textarea') 

               if tag.get_attribute('name') == 'publishereditablearea']

    textbox[0].click()

    textbox[0].send_keys("text")

The error message said: `element not visible.`

How can I send a text to the textbox?

[Xiang Dong]

it is a wrong case to send text to a hidden element because you can't do it manually, but you can use execute javascript in webdriver for this purpose.

--david

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