Selenium Webdriver enter multiline text in form without submitting it

Question

I have a multiline text and when I am simply putting the whole text into a form using sendKeys, the form gets submitted on each line break.

I tried replacing the ne

Answer 1

This is not a Selenium issue, pressing enter in a text field often submits the form. Usually you can bypass it by using Shift+Enter to insert a new line. Try this:

String myText = "first line\nsecond line";
myText = myText.replace("\n", Keys.chord(Keys.SHIFT, Keys.ENTER));
myElement.sendKeys(myText);