I have a long string to test and sendKeys()
takes too long. When I tried to set the value of the text
the program crashes. I know the Selenium
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("document.querySelector('attributeValue').value='new value'");
Thanks to Andrey-Egorov and this answer, I've managed to do it in C#
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
string value = (string)js.ExecuteScript("document.getElementById('elementID').setAttribute('value', 'new value for element')");
An alternative way of sending a large number of repeating characters to a text field (for instance to test the maximum number of characters the field will allow) is to type a few characters and then repeatedly copy and paste them:
inputField.sendKeys('0123456789');
for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
inputField.sendKeys(Key.chord(Key.CONTROL, 'a'));
inputField.sendKeys(Key.chord(Key.CONTROL, 'c'));
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
inputField.sendKeys(Key.chord(Key.CONTROL, 'v'));
}
}
Unfortunately pressing CTRL doesn't seem to work for IE unless REQUIRE_WINDOW_FOCUS
is enabled (which can cause other issues), but it works fine for Firefox and Chrome.
In a nutshell, this is the code which works for me :)
WebDriver driver;
WebElement element;
String value;
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("arguments[0].value='"+ value +"';", element);
Try to set the element's value using the executeScript
method of JavascriptExecutor:
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("document.getElementById('elementID').setAttribute('value', 'new value for element')");
Thanks to Andrey Egorov, in my case with python setAttribute
not working, but I found I can set the property directly,
Try this code:
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('q').value='value here'")