JavaScriptexecutor setAttribute value on selenium

Question

I was executing a selenium automation on IE11. Now for an Element, say ele; ele.sendKeys(characters) are not working directly. So I was trying to change the \'value

Answer 1

You have to instantiate your WebElement after manipulating the DOM, not before. Otherwise the stored WebElement won't contain the information you are looking for and will return null.

driver.executeScript("document.getElementById('ID').setAttribute('value','NEW_VALUE');");
System.out.print("value: "+driver.findElement(By.id("ID")).getAttribute("value"));