Clear text from textarea with selenium

Question

I\'ve got some tests where I\'m checking that the proper error message appears when text in certain fields are invalid. One check for validity is that a certain textarea el

Answer 1

I ran into a field where .clear() did not work. Using a combination of the first two answers worked for this field.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

#...your code (I was using python 3)

driver.find_element_by_id('foo').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + "a");
driver.find_element_by_id('foo').send_keys(Keys.DELETE);