'sendKeys' are not working in Selenium WebDriver

Question

I am not able to put any value in my application using WebDriver. My application is using frames.

I am able to clear the value of my textbox with driver.findElement(By.name("name")).clear();, but I'm unable to put any value using driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");. The click command works for another button on the same page.

Answer 1

I also had that problem, but then I made it work by:

myInputElm.click();
myInputElm.clear();
myInputElm.sendKeys('myString');

Answer 2

Try clicking on the textbox before you send keys.

It may be that you need to trigger an event on the field before input and hopefully the click will do it.

Answer 3

I experienced the same issue and was able to collect the following solution for this:

1. Make sure element is in focus → try to click it first and enter a string.
2. If there is some animation for this input box, apply some wait, not static. you may wait for an element which comes after the animation. (My case)
3. You can try it out using Actions class.

Answer 4

Before sendkeys(), use the click() method (i.e., in your case: clear(), click(), and sendKeys()):

driver.findElement(By.name("name")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.name("name")).click(); // Keep this click statement even if you are using click before clear.
driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");

Answer 5

Use JavaScript to click in the field and then use sendkeys() to enter values.

I had a similar problem in the past with frames. JavaScript is the best way.

Answer 6

Clicking the element works for me too, however, another solution I found was to enter the value using JavaScript, which doesn't require the element to have focus:

var _element= driver.FindElement(By.Id("e123"));
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value', 'textBoxValue')", _element);

Answer 7

First pass the driver control to the frame using:

  driver.switchTo().frame("pass id/name/index/webelement");

After that, perform the operation which you want to do on the webelement present inside the frame:

 driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");

Answer 8

I have gone with the same problem where copy-paste is also not working for that text box.

The below code is working fine for me:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
String mobNo = "99xxxxxxxx";
WebElement mobileElementIrs = 
driver.findElement(By.id("mobileNoPrimary"));
mobileElementIrs.click();
mobileElementIrs.clear();
mobileElementIrs.sendKeys(mobNo);

Answer 9

I had a similar problem too, when I used

getDriver().findElement(By.id(idValue)).clear();
getDriver().findElement(By.id(idValue)).sendKeys(text);

The value in "text" was not completely written into the input. Imagine that "Patrick" sometimes write "P" another "Pat",...so the test failed

The fix is a workaround and uses JavaScript:

((JavascriptExecutor)getDriver()).executeScript("$('#" + idValue + "').val('" + value + "');");

Now it is fine.

Instead of

driver.findElement(By.id("idValue")).sendKeys("text");

use,

((JavascriptExecutor)getDriver()).executeScript("$('#" + "idValue" + "').val('" + "text" + "');");

This worked for me.

Answer 10

I had a similar problem recently and tried some of the suggestions above, but nothing worked. In the end it fell back on a brute-force retry which retries if the input box wasn't set to what was expected.

I wanted to avoid thread.sleep for obvious reasons and saw different examples of it failing that looked like some kind of race or timing condition.

public void TypeText(string id, string text)
{
    const int numberOfRetries = 5;
    for (var i = 1; i < numberOfRetries; i++)
    {
        try
        {
            if (TryTypeText())
                return;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            if (i == numberOfRetries)
                throw;
        }
    }

    bool TryTypeText()
    {
        var element = _webDriver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
        element.Click();
        element.Clear();
        element.SendKeys(text);
        if (element.TagName.ToLower() == "input"
            && !DoesElementContainValue(element, text, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000)))
        {
            throw new ApplicationException($"Unable to set the type the text '{text}' into element with id {id}. Value is now '{element.GetAttribute("value")}'");
        }
        return true;
    }
}

private bool DoesElementContainValue(IWebElement webElement, string expected, TimeSpan timeout)
{
    var wait = new WebDriverWait(_webDriver, timeout);
    return wait.Until(driver =>
    {
        try
        {
            var attribute = webElement.GetAttribute("value");
            return attribute != null && attribute.Contains(expected);
        }
        catch (StaleElementReferenceException)
        {
            return false;
        }
    });
}

Answer 11

Try using JavaScript to sendkeys().

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("name"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

More information on JavaScript Executor can be found at JavascriptExecutor - Selenium.

Answer 12

Generally I keep a temporary variable. This should work.

var name = element(by.id('name'));
name.clear();
name.sendKeys('anything');