Selenium - send_keys() sending incomplete string

Question

My problem: I have a method to fill a field, but the problem is that selenium is not sending the complete string to the field, so my assert fails at the tim

Answer 1

It looks like this is a common issue.

Before trying the workarounds, as a sanity check, make sure that the input field is ready to receive input by the time you are sending keys. You could also try clearing the field before calling SendKeys. I am assuming that you are seeing your string truncated, and not characters missing or being prefixed with some artifact (like placeholder text or leftover input from a previous test).

Some workarounds if that didn't work:

1. Set the value of the input field using JavaScript, instead of calling SetKeys. On some websites where I do this, the input value actually won't be recognized unless I also trigger an input changed event.

   Example in C#. Hopefully, the only change you need is to make ExecuteScript be executeScript instead.

   driver.ExecuteScript("var exampleInput = document.getElementById('exampleInput'); exampleInput.value = '" + testInputValue + "'; exampleInput.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));");
   

   You could, of course, split this up into two lines, one to set the value, and the second to dispatch the event.
   
   

2. Send each key individually. This is a workaround I've seen a couple of times from the threads about this issue.

   for (var i = 0; i < first_name.length; i++) {
       name_field.sendKeys(first_name.charAt(i));
   }
   

https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/3196
https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/2019
etc. etc. More threads can be found by a simple search of "webdriver sendkeys does not wait for all the keys" if you want to look for other possible solutions to your issue.