Selenium WebDriver: I want to overwrite value in field instead of appending to it with sendKeys using Java

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In WebDriver, if I use sendKeys it will append my string to the value that already exists in the field. I can't clear it by using clear() method because the second I do that, the webpage will throw an error saying that it has to be between 10 and 100. So I can't clear it or an error will be thrown before I can put in the new value using sendKeys, and if I sendKeys it just appends it to the value already there.

Is there anything in WebDriver that lets you overwrite the value in the field?

selenium-webdriver sendkeys java
12 Answers

Okay, it is a few days ago... In my current case, the answer from ZloiAdun does not work for me, but brings me very close to my solution...

Instead of:

element.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"), "55");

the following code makes me happy:

element.sendKeys(Keys.HOME, Keys.chord(Keys.SHIFT, Keys.END), "55");

So I hope that helps somebody!

user_11973850

The original question says clear() cannot be used. This does not apply to that situation. I'm adding my working example here as this SO post was one of the first Google results for clearing an input before entering a value.

For input where here is no additional restriction I'm including a browser agnostic method for Selenium using NodeJS. This snippet is part of a common library I import with var test = require( 'common' ); in my test scripts. It is for a standard node module.exports definition.

when_id_exists_type : function( id, value ) {
driver.wait( webdriver.until.elementLocated( webdriver.By.id( id ) ) , 3000 )
    .then( function() {
        var el = driver.findElement( webdriver.By.id( id ) );
        el.click();
        el.clear();
        el.sendKeys( value );
    });
},

Find the element, click it, clear it, then send the keys.

This page has a complete code sample and article that may help.

user_6617610

This is something easy to do and it worked for me:

//Create a Javascript executor

JavascriptExecutor jst= (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
jst.executeScript("arguments[1].value = arguments[0]; ", 55, driver.findElement(By.id("id")));

55 = value assigned

user_82919020 
 WebElement p= driver.findElement(By.id("your id name"));
 p.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"), "55");
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