'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.findEle

Answer 1

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;
        }
    });
}