How to locate and type something in the textbox

Question

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        public void setUp(){        
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Answer 1

Regarding your By.id statement, it looks like you have passed an XPath instead of just the id. So this:

element = myDynamicElement(By.id("//*[@id='p_13838465-p']")); //this locator is an XPath

should become this:

element = myDynamicElement(By.id('p_13838465-p')); //this is just the ID

However, if this ID is dynamically generated, then it won't work reliably, and you may need to considering finding it by a different locator.

Then, once you've identified the element, to type in it, you use .sendKeys("your text here"), like this:

element.sendKeys("your text here");

or you could combine it into one line by skipping the element = part and just say:

myDynamicElement(By.id('p_13838465-p')).sendKeys("your text here");