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

In my experience, this turned out to be the most efficient

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('foo').send_keys(u'\ue009' + u'\ue003')

We are sending Ctrl + Backspace to delete all characters from the input, you can also replace backspace with delete.

EDIT: removed Keys dependency