Clear date input fails on chromewebdriver

Question

I ran into a problem while switching from firefoxdriver to chromedriver with selenium, it was working fine in FF but now when I try to clear a date input field I have this e

Answer 1

Sometimes you can change the xpath a bit and get to the point that it works:

For example for this piece of DOM:

if you use:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By
                    .xpath("//tr[@class='table-filters']//td"))).clear();

it will not work, but:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By
                    .xpath("//tr[@class='table-filters']//td//input"))).clear();

Works.