Safari Driver throws org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot set the selection end

Pavithra

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Aug 13, 2012, 3:25:17 AM8/13/12

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Just started using Safari Driver as per http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver
Launched Safari using below code:
capability = DesiredCapabilities.safari();
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://" + serverIp + ":" + serverPort + "/wd/hub"), capability);
return driver;

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot set the selection end error is thrown when I am trying to type on the element inside iframe.
I switched to iframe using switchto frame (based on frame name).

Below is the element xpath inside iframe (from safari browser):
<html>
<head>
<style></style>
<body style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; " contenteditable="true" unselectable="off"></body>
</html>

element is identified as xpath,/html/body

While trying to type on the above element it throws the error: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot set the selection end

Note: Only in Safari browser, while inspecting I could see contenteditable="true" unselectable="off" and not in other browsers. What does this mean?
How to resolve the above error?
Kindly help!!

Note: Same sendKeys works fine with other browsers: IE, FF, Chrome.

--Pavithra

Pavithra

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Aug 13, 2012, 3:27:22 AM8/13/12

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Sorry missed to close the head tag before body tag.
Dom Structure is like this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body></body>
</html>

Jason Leyba

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Aug 13, 2012, 1:43:48 PM8/13/12

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The SafariDriver does not support typing in contentEditable fields.

-- Jason

Pavithra Navaneeth

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Aug 13, 2012, 1:47:30 PM8/13/12

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Jason,

Thanks for the info!!

Is there any alternative to type in such fields?

Note: In other browsers, I am not seeing this attributes: contenteditable="true" unselectable="off"

It appears only in safari browser while inspecting. Any reason?

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David

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Aug 13, 2012, 6:48:41 PM8/13/12

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some thoughts...

modify the DOM via javascript to remove those attributes or change the
value of those attributes. then continue with typing into the field
not sure if that's possible though.

fake user agent of browser, unfortunately, I believe you can't do that
with SafariDriver so that won't help. But for fun/testing, you could
try faking user agent of Firefox to pretend to be Safari (I think that
was editing profile settings, etc. for user agent parameter), and see
if the attributes show up. I'm guessing the site you are testing,
checks against Safari and renders differently or such.

On Aug 13, 10:47 am, Pavithra Navaneeth <pavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jason,
> Thanks for the info!!
> Is there any alternative to type in such fields?
>
> Note: In other browsers, I am not seeing this attributes:
> contenteditable="true"
> unselectable="off"
> It appears only in safari browser while inspecting. Any reason?
>
> --Pavithra
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Jason Leyba <jmle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The SafariDriver does not support typing in contentEditable fields.
>
> > -- Jason
>
> > On Monday, August 13, 2012 12:27:22 AM UTC-7, Pavithra wrote:
>
> >> Sorry missed to close the head tag before body tag.
> >> Dom Structure is like this:
> >> <html>
> >> <head></head>
> >> <body></body>
> >> </html>
>
> >> On Monday, August 13, 2012 12:55:17 PM UTC+5:30, Pavithra wrote:
>

> >>> Just started using Safari Driver as perhttp://code.google.com/p/**
> >>> selenium/wiki/SafariDriver<http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver>

> >>> Launched Safari using below code:
> >>> capability = DesiredCapabilities.safari();
> >>> driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://" + serverIp + ":" +
> >>> serverPort + "/wd/hub"), capability);
> >>> return driver;
>

> >>> org.openqa.selenium.**WebDriverException: Cannot set the selection end

> >>> error is thrown when I am trying to type on the element inside iframe.
> >>> I switched to iframe using switchto frame (based on frame name).
>
> >>> Below is the element xpath inside iframe (from safari browser):
> >>> <html>
> >>> <head>
> >>> <style></style>
> >>> <body style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom:
> >>> 15px; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
> >>> sans-serif; color: black; " contenteditable="true"
> >>> unselectable="off"></body>
> >>> </html>
>
> >>> element is identified as xpath,/html/body
>
> >>> While trying to type on the above element it throws the error:

> >>> org.openqa.selenium.**WebDriverException: Cannot set the selection end

Pavithra

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Feb 4, 2013, 5:15:23 AM2/4/13

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Deepankur,
Not yet. I am also checking :-(
But I could see java script executor can be used with document.evaluate syntax to type in it. But I am not sure about the exact syntax ...

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 18:01:30 UTC+5:30, Deepankur Tyagi wrote:

Hi Pavithra,
Have you found answer of this problem. I am struggling with it too?
Thanks
Deepankur

Jason Leyba

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Apr 3, 2013, 4:10:41 PM4/3/13

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It's a limitation of the SafariDriver and not likely to be fixed.

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=4467

On Friday, March 29, 2013 2:50:10 AM UTC-7, Moldovan Ionut Emilian wrote:

I also have this problem , when sendkeys to xptah : /html/body -> on Safari , for IE ,FF , GC works just fine .
Does anyone know if this is a Safari Driver Bug , should we Log a Bug somewhere and maybe it will get solve ?

Pavithra

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May 14, 2013, 1:53:55 AM5/14/13

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After switching to iframe: driver.switchTo().frame("frame_name")

Here is the solution we have to type inside iframe in safari:

if (browser_name.equalsIgnoreCase("safari") && (typeInsideFrame.equalsIgnoreCase("true")))

{

((JavascriptExecutor) driver) .executeScript( "var div = document.getElementsByTagName (\"body\")[0];if (div.contentEditable == \"true\") {div.contentEditable = \"false\";var text=div.innerHTML;div.innerHTML = text+arguments[0];}",value);

}

It directly inserts the value to be typed inside the html dom.

Hope it helps!!

Thanks

Pavithra

Iuliana Pavaloaie

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Feb 4, 2015, 11:50:56 AM2/4/15

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You can always use Java Robot class instead. You only need to click in the text area first.

After:

Robot robot = new Robot();

robot.setAutoDelay(40);

robot.setAutoWaitForIdle(true);

Thread.sleep(2500);

//type is defined elsewhere - not illustrating for this example

Keyboard keyboard = new Keyboard();

Thread.sleep(500);

keyboard.type(headlineText);

Thread.sleep(500);

Thread.sleep(3500);

robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

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