sendkeys are not working in Selenium Webdriver

Question

I want to put value using webdriver,

This is the command I am using

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

I want to put tab keys and keys in text box, can someone suggest an easy way to do so ?

Answer 1

If you want to send keys to a text box and send tab key both at the same time instead of writing two different statements, use a comma.

driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("daniel",Keys.TAB);

By using a comma you can send both username and key-stroke at the same time.

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Comments

thanks this works

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Using Keys.TAB helped!

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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 the click will do it hopefully.

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Thanks a lot. It worked.

Answer 2

If your application is using frames, you can try as follows:

First, pass driver control to the frame using----

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

After that perform the operation which you want to do on the web element present inside frame say here you want to enter the text "daniel"--

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

I hope that helps!

Comments

It worked for me! Thanks!

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Thanks for this clear explanation!

Answer 3

In order to use TAB keys here, you need to do something like below:

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);

builder.keyDown(Keys.TAB).perform()

Comments

It worked for me. Thank you.

Answer 4

I also had that problem as well before. But then what I did to make it work is:

myInputElm.click();

myInputElm.clear();

myInputElm.sendKeys('myString');

Comments

This worked for me.

Answer 5

You can use click() method [ i.e in your case : clear(), click(), sendKeys() ] before sendkeys()and sendkeys will start working:-

driver.findElement(By.name("name")).clear(); driver.findElement(By.name("name")).click(); driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("abc");