How to write some text in textarea on a webpage using Selenium WebDriver

[sachin ahuja]

Hi,

I am using below code to write text in textarea on a webpage.

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.findElement(By.id("

description")).sendkeys("some value");

// This code write character by character.

I tried same with JavascriptExecutor with below code for textbox(input tag) but it doesn't work for textarea.

WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.id("description"));
JavascriptExecutor js=(JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value',arguments[1]);",element,"some value);


Please help me to write some text in textarea tag. That will be replacement of "sendKeys()".


Thanks
Sachin Ahuja

[Jianfeng Sun]

I'm using sendkeys for textarea and facing no issue. Good practice will be to do a clear before you sendkeys. Sometimes, you need to activate the field first before you can enter anything.  If this won''t help, please specific what kind of error you are getting. 

[sachin ahuja]

Yes, sendkeys is working fine.
But when I am having large text to enter, it is taking extra time.

I am looking for an alternative to sendKeys

[Deepthi]

public class no_sendkeys {

public static void setAttribute(WebElement element, String attributeName, String value)

{

WrapsDriver wd = (WrapsDriver) element;

JavascriptExecutor driver = (JavascriptExecutor)wd.getWrappedDriver();

driver.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute(arguments[1],arguments[2])", element, attributeName, value);

}

public static void main(String[] args) 

{

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/");

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

WebElement input_user=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='email']"));

setAttribute(input_user,"value","Deepthi");

}

}

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:23:16 AM UTC-7, sachin ahuja wrote:

[sachin ahuja]

Hi Deepthi,

I am using the same code as..

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
element=objWebDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@id='description']"));

JavascriptExecutor js=(JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value',arguments[1]);",element,"some value);

Please help me to resolve this.

Thanks,

[ani0...@gmail.com]

Sachin what is the application u r automating?may be u r taking wrong selector.

Instead of send keys can u try with clipboard fun ctionality?

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Hi Deepthi,

It didn't work.

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[sachin ahuja]

Animesh, I am using "http://www.jobzoom.com/main/dashboard/" this website and trying to automate this.
After logon to this, their is an field for Job Description.

Below tag is used for textarea :

<textarea id="description" class="validate['required']" name="description" cols="75" style="border: 2px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" rows="16"></textarea>

[Deepthi]

Hi Sachin

Use the attribute placeholder

public class jobzoom_TextArea {

        public static void setValue(WebElement element, String attributeName, String value)

{

WrapsDriver wd = (WrapsDriver) element;

JavascriptExecutor driver = (JavascriptExecutor)wd.getWrappedDriver();

driver.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute(arguments[1],arguments[2])", element, attributeName, value);

}

public static void main(String[] args)

{

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://www.jobzoom.com/main/postjob.php");

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.manage().window().maximize();

               WebElement textarea=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='description']"));

setValue(textarea,"placeholder","selenium webdriver java");

[Deepthi]

Hi Sachin,

Sorry sachin the below code doesn't work in the  way as it is supposed to do.

Thanks

Deepthi

[sachin ahuja]

Yeah, I had already tried for "Placeholder" attribute, but it behave in different manner.

[jeevan]

Try this,

JavascriptExecutor js =  (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

js.executeScript("document.getElementById('description').value='ABCD');

Thanks,

Jeevan

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:00 AM, sachin ahuja <sachin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I had already tried for "Placeholder" attribute, but it behave in different manner.

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[vandana singh]

Hi,

Can some one help me for below scenario:

how to take input from xml file in webpage-textarea using selenium webdriver with java?

Thanks

[vandana singh]

I am trying to take a very big data in text area as input and it is located in some folder in xml format.please help. 

Thanks, 

Vandana 

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