Table of Contents
- 1 What can be used instead of send keys?
- 2 What is alternative way for sendKeys in selenium?
- 3 How many ways we can send keys in selenium?
- 4 What is implicit wait in Selenium?
- 5 Why is sendKeys not working?
- 6 Why sendKeys is not working in Selenium?
- 7 How do I click a button using Selenium?
- 8 What is WebElement?
What can be used instead of send keys?
We can input text in the text box without the method sendKeys with thehelp of the JavaScript Executor. Selenium executes JavaScript commands with the help of the executeScript method. The JavaScript command to be run is passed as parameter to the method.
What is alternative way for sendKeys in selenium?
driver. findElement(By. xpath(“.//div/input[starts-with(@id,’4′) and @class=’ input’ and @type=’text’ and @placeholder=”]”)).
How many ways we can send keys in selenium?
Now, as we discussed, Selenium WebDriver provides two ways to send any keyboard event to a web element: sendKeys() method of WebElement class.
Is there a way to type in a textbox without using sendKeys ()?
Yes, use javascript executer.
How many ways can you enter text in Selenium?
To enter the text into a textbox using javascript, we have two ways:
- FindElement(Javascript) + EnterText (Javascript)
- FindElement(WebDriver) + EnterText (Javascript)
What is implicit wait in Selenium?
Implicit Wait directs the Selenium WebDriver to wait for a certain measure of time before throwing an exception. Once this time is set, WebDriver will wait for the element before the exception occurs. Once the command is in place, Implicit Wait stays in place for the entire duration for which the browser is open.
Why is sendKeys not working?
If you cannot use sendKeys, you may need to trigger an event on the field before entering the input. You can first click on the textbox, and hopefully, the click will help trigger it. You can also use JavaScript to click on the field and then use sendKeys() to enter the required values.
Why sendKeys is not working in Selenium?
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. I experienced the same issue and was able to collect the following solution for this: Make sure element is in focus → try to click it first and enter a string.
What is keyUp and keyDown in Selenium?
To hold down a key simultaneously while another key is being pressed, we use the keyDown() and keyUp() methods. Both these methods accept the modifier key as a parameter. The action of these two methods on a key yields a special functionality of a key. All these methods are a part of Actions class in Selenium.
How do you type in a text box using Selenium?
The following are the two different ways you can type text into the text box fields in Selenium:
- > sendKeys() – driver.findElement().sendKeys();
- > JavascriptExecutor. – JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; – jse. executeScript(“document. getElementById(“input-email”). setAttribute(‘value’,’QAFox’)”);
We can click a button with Selenium webdriver in Python using the click method. First, we have to identify the button to be clicked with the help of any locators like id, name, class, xpath, tagname or css. Then we have to apply the click method on it. A button in html code is represented by button tagname.
What is WebElement?
A WebElement, in this case, a Selenium WebElement is essentially an HTML element on a website. HTML documents consist of HTML elements. Each HTML element consists of a start tag and an end tag. The content lies between the tags.