This only happens on Safari with SafariDriver:
For a textinput element, clear() can clear the field indeed, but the following values sent using sendKeys() are actually extended with the original value.
Example:
Start -- input value: 1
input.clear() -- input value: empty
input.sendKeys(2) -- input value: 12
Also tried
sendKeys(Key.HOME,Key.chord(Key.SHIFT,Key.END),newVal) to select all and replace, but this simply not working. Nothing was selected.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Try to click element first and then use clear() method to clear text, it works for me many times may be for you also:
WebElement myInputElement= driver.findElement("Locator value");
myInputElement.click();
myInputElement.clear();
myInputElement.sendKeys('Testing');
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I'm automating e2e tests with Protractor on an angular app.
However, I have an issue when sending keys on input fields.
The sendKeys would miss few characters everytime so I found a workaround :
static sendKeys(value, element){
value.split('').forEach((c) => element.sendKeys(c));
}
This works well but it takes more than 3 times the time the original sendKeys function would.
Well no problem my tests are still functionnal right ?
My app now has new fields with scripts behind them.
One of them is a datepicker input, you can either choose from the datePicker or type it manually. However, for today's date you would type 09022018 and the slashes are automatically appended at the right place (like so 09/02/2018). If you were to enter a wrong date the field is cleared.
Now back to the problem : it seems that both my implementation of sendKeys and the original one loose focus after each submitted key. This means that I can't enter a valid date in the input field as it's cleared after each simulated keypress.
I could use browser.executeScript to fix it but I wouldn't be able to test the functionnality adding slashes. Also, as you type, the datepicker is still open and refreshes after each keypress, you can select a date from it at any time and that is also a feature I want to test.
Thanks in advance
Use executeScript to set the date in backgrond, then use sendKeys to enter a space or Tab at the end to trigger the Keyborad event which will check the input and format the input with slash
function enterDate(date) {
var script = 'arguments[0].value=arguments[1]';
// input box for date
var dateBox = element(by.xxx(yyy));
browser.executeScript(script, dateBox, date);
dateBox.sendKeys(" ");
// or try send Tab
dateBox.sendKeys(protractor.Key.TAB);
}
enterDate('09022018');
You can try this solution on other fields you fixed but take 3 more time.
I am unable to enter data in a required field of format __-_______ (it is a 9 digit number) and not getting any errors on console.Cursor entered into the field and moved from starting to end of the field but data not entered.
I have tried below code formats...
driver.findElement(By.id("vendoridentificationnumber")).sendKeys("12-3456789");
--- not working.
driver.findElement(By.id("vendoridentificationnumber")).sendKeys("123456789");
--- not working.
driver.findElement(By.id("vendoridentificationnumber")).sendKeys(s.getCell(3,1).getContents());
--- not working.
Please help me out with this.
Do one thing, without inspecting the element where you want to insert the number simply you can inspect just before element and using Keys class you can jump to your text field and enter your data. Below is a sample line of code
d.findElement(By.xpath("")).sendKeys(Keys.TAB,"enter your value");
Hope it'll work.
Use javascript to enter the value in the textbox.
Eg :
$('#textboxid').val('test')
I am trying to run test cases to perform reset password and I am facing this issue.
WebDriverException Element must be user-editable in order to clear it.
Basically i am accessing the page for entering the new password and doing this:
browser.$("#newPassword").text("password");
where execution of the above line throws the error.
I had the same problem and it was because there was another element with the same id which was not an input field so it could not be cleared.
We can try the following:
WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.DELETE);
WebElement.sendKeys("Test");
It might be a case of using the wrong method for the input type.
In CodeCeption at least, fillField should be used on input elements and selectOption should be used on select elements and mixing them up will give invalid element state: Element must be user-editable in order to clear it.
I had this problem with a Primefaces autoComplete element. Primefaces 6.0 renders a span with the ID you pass, and within that an input with a "_input" appended to the ID. If you just use the ID you added in your source code, you tell Selenium to enter into the span (which fails with the "element must be user-editable" error). Add the "_input" to the ID if you select by ID in selenium.
I am trying to test a webpage using Selenium and NUnit. One of my test cases entails the validation of text boxes. Using Selenium and C#, I am able to retrieve the value entered in the text box. But when the validation of the text box fails, an error message is displayed next to the text box.
So, here are my questions:
1. How can I test if an error was raised due to validation failure.
2. Can I get the text of that error.
3. Or, am I way off the mark and what I am trying to do is not at all possible.
I have tried reading the value of the element, but it always seems to be an empty string.
Say, for example, I am trying to test the webpage https://edit.yahoo.com/registration . When I enter "**myname&&" in the First Name field, an error appears stating "Only letters, spaces, hyphens, and apostrophes are allowed". I want to be able to test that this error was raised.
Also, I noticed that when Selenium opens the webpage and enters an incorrect value in the text box, the error message does not get displayed next to this text box. Whereas, when I open the webpage myself and enter an incorrect text, the error message is displayed
Thanks!!
You will have to use thread.sleep, but in a better way. It's better to write a function like this (I am writing this in JAVA, you should be able to write it for C#). This method will wait for the specified number of seconds for the element to be visible. If the element is not visible even after the specified number of seconds, then the method will return false. If it becomes visible then the method will return true.
Alternatively, you can use an assertion instead of returning a false condition so that your test fails.
public boolean waitForErrorMessage(String elementToWaitFor, int waitTimeInSeconds)
{
int timeOut=0;
while(!selenium.isVisible(elementToWaitFor))
{
if(timeOut<waitTimeInSeconds){
#sleep for one second
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
else {
return false;
}
timeOut=timeOut+1;
}
return true;
}
I am getting different results for the same locator. For example
//table[#id='foo']
returns true when testing ElementPresent, but returns 0 for XpathCount. In Selenium v1.0.10 IDE the Find button highlights the correct element for both functions. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Notes:
We have frames on the page EDIT: This is probably the problem. Bounty to verification.
There are many tables on the page, but only one with #id of "foo"
Firefox 3.6
Happens in both IDE and Java RC
Well, this is not a verification more of a non-verification.
I use Selenium to test a GUI with frames. To make isElementPresent and getXpathCount to work I always have to select a frame first with selectFrame (even to get isElementPresent to work correctly). By just opening an URL no frame at all seems to be selected.
This is what the HTML and corresponding selectFrame code looks like:
<frameset id="mainframeset"><frame name="nav" id="nav" src....
selenium.selectFrame("nav");
Use these XPath expressions:
boolean(//table[#id='foo'])
and
count(//table[#id='foo'])
In case there is a table element whose id attribute's value is "foo", then the first expression above should evalute to true() and the second expression above should evalute to a positive integer.
Not really a direct answer to the question, but a workaround if you are reading this and want to loop over the elements. Use isElementPresent in the for loop like this:
for(int i = 2; selenium.isElementPresent("//table[#id='foo']//tr["+i+"]"); i++)
{
selenium.getText("//table[#id='foo']//tr["+i+"]//td["+columnNum+"]");
}
Note that we start i at 2 since XPath is indexed from 1 and we want to skip the header