Selenium WebDriver typing very slow in text field on IE browser

Question

I'm running one of my scripts on  the IE 11  browser with Selenium 2.43.1  when the script types in the text field using the following: 

element.sendKeys("string");

In the IE browser, I can see that one character of the string is typed in the text field and it waits for 1-2 seconds before typing the next character. Means for typing one character it's taking 1-2 seconds.

1. Why is typing so slow with IE?
2. Is there any alternate way to speed up typing?

Answer 1

Follow the below steps :

 

1) Use IE Driver Server of 32 bit instead of 64 bit.

2) Set native events to false in your desired capability while initializing Internet explorer driver object.

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

ieOptions.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.NATIVE_EVENTS, false);

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);

You can also use InternetExplorerOptions class to set capabilities for driver object

InternetExplorerOptions ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions();

ieOptions.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.NATIVE_EVENTS, false);

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieOptions);

Complete Example:

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerOptions;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

 

public class SampleTest {

 

    @Test

    public void test_01() {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver",

                System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/IEDriverServer.exe");

        InternetExplorerOptions ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions();

        ieOptions.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.NATIVE_EVENTS, false);

        WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieOptions);

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        driver.get("http://www.google.com");

        driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Test Selenium");

    }

} 

Hope this helps! 

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