'sendKeys' are not working in Selenium WebDriver

Question

I am not able to put any value in my application using WebDriver. My application is using frames.

I am able to clear the value of my textbox with driver.findEle

Answer 1

Try using JavaScript to sendkeys().

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("name"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

More information on JavaScript Executor can be found at JavascriptExecutor - Selenium.

Answer 2

Generally I keep a temporary variable. This should work.

var name = element(by.id('name'));
name.clear();
name.sendKeys('anything');

Answer 3

Try clicking on the textbox before you send keys.

It may be that you need to trigger an event on the field before input and hopefully the click will do it.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem recently and tried some of the suggestions above, but nothing worked. In the end it fell back on a brute-force retry which retries if the input box wasn't set to what was expected.

I wanted to avoid thread.sleep for obvious reasons and saw different examples of it failing that looked like some kind of race or timing condition.

public void TypeText(string id, string text)
{
    const int numberOfRetries = 5;
    for (var i = 1; i < numberOfRetries; i++)
    {
        try
        {
            if (TryTypeText())
                return;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            if (i == numberOfRetries)
                throw;
        }
    }

    bool TryTypeText()
    {
        var element = _webDriver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
        element.Click();
        element.Clear();
        element.SendKeys(text);
        if (element.TagName.ToLower() == "input"
            && !DoesElementContainValue(element, text, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000)))
        {
            throw new ApplicationException($"Unable to set the type the text '{text}' into element with id {id}. Value is now '{element.GetAttribute("value")}'");
        }
        return true;
    }
}

private bool DoesElementContainValue(IWebElement webElement, string expected, TimeSpan timeout)
{
    var wait = new WebDriverWait(_webDriver, timeout);
    return wait.Until(driver =>
    {
        try
        {
            var attribute = webElement.GetAttribute("value");
            return attribute != null && attribute.Contains(expected);
        }
        catch (StaleElementReferenceException)
        {
            return false;
        }
    });
}

Answer 5

First pass the driver control to the frame using:

  driver.switchTo().frame("pass id/name/index/webelement");

After that, perform the operation which you want to do on the webelement present inside the frame:

 driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("manish");

Answer 6

I also had that problem, but then I made it work by:

myInputElm.click();
myInputElm.clear();
myInputElm.sendKeys('myString');