How to input text into tinceMCE editior using selenium/webdriver

Question

I am trying to automatically insert some text using Selenium/Webdriver into a text box created using tinymce

The text box is not a plain vanilla textbox so following

Answer 1

From @user1177636's answer above, I found that --in the Firefox driver-- I could only get the "Use TinyMCE's native API" option to work. However, that really was not what I wanted because that would overwrite everything in the textbox with the string provided to that API method. That was detrimental for me since I had a bunch of content in the editor I did not want to lose.

However, I am happy to inform you that simply using activeEditor.selection.setContent gets it to simply insert some text instead of overwriting all of it. Yeap, that extra "selection" is what I needed.

So, here is my solution, which is just a slight variation on @user1177636's tinyMce API on above and which prepends the word "changed! ":

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("tinyMCE.activeEditor.selection.setContent('changed! ')");

Do not forget that you'll need this import for that to work

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

Hope this helps someone else who might have the same predicament I had and saves them some time (not having to hunt as long as I did to discover this).