How do I simulate hitting enter in an input field with Capybara and ChromeDriver?

Question

I have the following helper method to input a string into an input field and press the enter key, but it seems the enter key is never pressed. I see the string entered into

Answer 1

Usually when you run page.execute_script, you get the same results as if you were running that in the page console. Try running that manually in the console and see if you get the expected results. That is usually what I do.. craft the needed js code in the browser console window and paste it into the capybara code when it is working, using execute_script.

Answer 2

It works for me

page.execute_script("$('form.css-class/#form_id').submit()")

Answer 3

Capybara doesn't have native support for a send_keys type event. You might be able to go down to selenium to do it, or you can try this gem https://github.com/markgandolfo/send-keys

Answer 4

find('#q_name').native.send_keys(:return)

works for me. I dont have a name or id for my field but the type is input so i used something like

find('.myselector_name>input').native.send_keys(:return)

works perfectly fine!

Answer 5

These days (Capybara version 2.5+) you can simulate <enter> key in the following way:

find('.selector').set("text\n")

The \n is the very important bit here.

Answer 6

@Page.selector.send_keys :return

This works for me, where selector is the element in your page object element :selector, '<css selector>'