Can't clear input field using IWebDriver.Clear() method

[Volodymyr Stelmakh]

Hello 

I use selenium v2.21 & FF11. 

Task: to clear field before sending a value.

How do field looks on the page:

<input type="text" maxlength="128" name="amount" id="edit-amount" size="4" value="265" tabindex="1" class="form-text form-element-type-textfield ClickTaleSensitive" /> 

How do i do it:

    element.Clear();

    element.SendKeys(value);

When i run this code, it writes value to the right of the existing.

What do i do wrong?

Thanks

[Stefan Teixeira]

I don't know why the clear() method isn't working for you, but I faced a situation like that recently and I used the Keys.chord method to solve that (see selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/Keys.html).

You could try to select the content of the field by pressing CTRL + A, it should look like element.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"), value)).

If this doesn't work, try something like element.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.END, Keys.BACKSPACE, Keys.BACKSPACE, ... (enough backspaces to erase the field)), value)).

2012/5/25 Volodymyr Stelmakh <vk.st...@gmail.com>

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[lbrown]

This is a really old post so I am hoping someone will still have an answer for me.

I am having a problem clearing default data from a field with the clear() method in Selenium. SO I followed the example below using the Keys methothds and got the following error:

NameError: uninitialized constant "filename"::Keys

I am not a developer and have little experience with initializing classes. How do I initialize "Keys", and is that all I need to do to enable the following to execute correctly?

@driver.find_element(:id, "txtBrokerCommission").send_keys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)
    @driver.find_element(:id, "txtBrokerCommission").send_keys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"))
    @driver.find_element(:id, "txtBrokerCommission").send_keys(Keys.DELETE)
    @driver.find_element(:id, "txtBrokerCommission").send_keys "100.00"

[Emily Zhai]

I'm probably two years too late but I'm guessing you forgot to import. Add from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys to the top of your document.

[Selenium Curious]

Hi how to clear all default values from a form using slelenium webdriver. Please help me out immediately if possible as i am new to this coding

[Xiang Dong]

Maybe you can click it before send keys. It depends on how does your web developed.

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[poobathy r]

You can use java script clear that will clear the input box but this is  work around... 

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