Remove readonly attributes in Selenium WebDriver

Question

I need to edit some readonly fields with Selenium WebDriver in Java. As Selenium won\'t let me even find this fields I searched for solutions and found that the

Answer 1

Apparently there was a very funky character being put into your string.. as I was using my <- and -> arrow keys, it was getting caught for three characters at the end, and in the middle of the string. Seems to be some copy-pasta issue.

I fixed it just be putting it one one line, however I would still recommend going with @lost's answer as it's more explicit.

@Config(url="https://rawgithub.com/ddavison/so-tests/master/22711441.html", browser= Browser.CHROME)
public class _22711441 extends AutomationTest {
    @Test
    public void test() {
        ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(
        // the issue was happening                          \/ here and                                                                             \/ here
        "var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');for(var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++){inputs[i].removeAttribute('readonly','readonly');}"
        );

        setText(By.id("1"), "something")
        .validateText(By.id("1"), "something");
    }
}

See the script here and the page i used to test here