Textarea is not receiving keys from send_keys

[Jordan Prince]

Hey guys, I am trying to make a textarea's send_keys method work using the ruby webdriver. If you goto jsfiddle.net and do <textarea></textarea>, navigate to it with

your driver, and then do driver.find_elements(:tag_name, 'textarea').first.send_keys("x"), x won't appear in the textbox. I have no idea why. Do you?

Thanks,

Jordan

[Vishal Mishra]

If you tell me the exact testcase you want to do i might help you

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[bgoad]

Most likely the reason is you are pulling the first textbox found (which is not necessarily the one that you added to jsfiddle ... see http://i.imm.io/Zks7.jpeg for a screenie of the first textarea element that appears for me).
I would recommend trying again using more specific selectors (xpath, or my favorite, css) to find the specific textarea element you are looking for.

Brian