How to sendKeys to Google Docs

[Tiếu Thủy]

Dear all

I am trying to apply Selenium Java 2.44.0 with Google Docs (docs.google.com)

I can get the content of Google Docs document by

WebElement e = driver.findElement (byClassName ("kix-lineview")); //driver is a FirefoxDriver

then

e.getText ( );

but when I tried:

e.sendKeys ("abc");

nothing happened

If you have experience to sendKeys to Google Docs document, could you please help me?

Thank you very much

[pranab singh]

Hey if their is a space to put the path of a file then only the send keys will work fine.
The web element  must be a text field to work with sendkeys.and then u can press enter.eg.
e.sendkeys("abc or whatever u want to search",Keys.Enter);
Hope this may work fine..n let me know

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[Tiếu Thủy]

Hello Paranab

Thank you very much for your help, but it does not work.

Basically, I want to sendKeys (to type) in Google Docs document.

[PeterJeffreyGale]

Tieu

It is not enough information to just say that "it doesn't work".

At least give th actual code that you have tried and full details of any error messages.

[Tiếu Thủy]

Hello Peter

I am sorry for the lack of information:

The code I am using is as follow;

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver ();

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

driver.get ("Google Docs URL HERE");

WebElement content = driver.findElement(By.className("kix-lineview"));

System.out.println("found");

while (true) {

    System.out.println (content.getText ()); //it works, the content of the document is printed to console  

    content.sendKeys("abc"); // it does not work: the content does not change

}

But I realized that, during the code runs, if I clicked to the document content manually, the text "abc" will be append. But if I do not click and let the code run, the content of the document does not change.

I also tried:

content.click ();

before

content.sendKeys ("abc");

but it still does not help. The content of the document does not change

[Tiếu Thủy]

Hello,

I am still stuck with this problem.

Any hint is appreciated

[CH!NN@ K]

Hi Tieu Thuy, I think what is the problem is you can use xpath at className (because google docs and gmail some time change the locators/elements frequently  ). So better to use xpath instead of className. I guess that.   (WebElement content = driver.findElement(By.className("kix-lineview"));
(WebElement content = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] "));

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Thanks & Regards,

Purushotham Karimbedu,

Druapl Developer and QA Engineer,

Website for Selenium : http://techlearn.in

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