Typing text into input box often leaves box blank

[Greg]

I know my title might be confusing so I'll go into more detail:

I have a very straight-forward scenario where I need to type a temporary password into an input box. Sometimes Selenium will input the text and it will show on the screen, and then the test will click a button, yielding a successful test. However, often the test will enter text, yet the screen will stay blank, yet Selenium registers that its action was completed successfully. Then Selenium will click a button, obviously leading to a test failure.

@test
def sometest():
..
test_page.enter_temp_password(password)
...

def enter_temp_password(self, tempPass):
        try:
            self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name("input").send_keys(tempPass)
        except StaleElementReferenceException:
            self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name("input").send_keys(tempPass)

Html:
<fieldset class="verify-fieldset">     
<label for="tempPassword">Verification code</label>     
<div class="error off"></div>     
<input type="text" class="input-hasPlaceholder" id="tempPassword" name="tempPassword">     
<div class="instructions">       
<p class="resendSMS-blurb">Didn't get the text? <a "href="#" class="resendSMS-link">Resend it</a></p>       
<p class="sentSMS displayNone">Text sent</p>       
<span class="progress off"></span>     
</div>   
</fieldset>

I've tried alot of different stuff from implicit waits to funky loops as well, nothing worked 100% although implicit waits worked the best, but thats not saying much. So I'm thinking the machine I'm running my webpage on might be slightly funky. I've looked at the memory and it seems like 457/967mb are taken on the machine. Which wouldn't really raise my eyebrows, except I'm basically stumped, so imo anything is possible. Has anyone had any experience with this kind of problem before?

Thanks,
Greg

[Greg]

I actually seem to have gotten it working using:

def enter_temp_password(self, tempPass):  
        try:      
            self.regdriver.find_element_by_tag_name(element_locators['tempField']).send_keys(tempPass)  
        except Exception:
            self.regdriver.find_element_by_tag_name(element_locators['tempField']).send_keys(tempPass)
        self.check_for_pass(tempPass)

    def check_for_pass(self, tempPass):

        field = self.regdriver.find_element_by_tag_name(element_locators['tempField']).get_attribute("value")

        while field != tempPass:  
            self.regdriver.find_element_by_tag_name(element_locators['tempField']).send_keys(tempPass)
            field = self.regdriver.find_element_by_tag_name(element_locators['tempField']).get_attribute("value")

This is pretty hacky though, I was wondering if anyone knows the general theory as to why I might not have been finding my stuff in the first place

Greg

[DongXiang]

Try to click the element before sendKeys. I got the same problem but solved after add a click.
 

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:55:18 -0700
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[Greg]

Tried the click command, and it didnt do anything for me.

[Stefan Teixeira]

I got a problem like this once, because the fields I wanted to fill had too much ajax validations. The solution that worked for me was to click the element, put the Thread to sleep a few seconds, and then send keys to fill it.

2012/8/1 Greg <gre...@gmail.com>

Tried the click command, and it didnt do anything for me.

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