How to type some text in hidden field in Selenium WebDriver using Java

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I am using WebDriver with Java for test automation. I have the following HTML code for input field which is hidden:

<input type="hidden" value="" name="body" id=":6b">

How to type something in hidden field in Selenium2 (WebDriver)? I have written code as:

driver.findElement(By.name("body")).sendKeys("test body");

But it was shown the following error: org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout: 30.04 seconds

Can anybody please help me to write/type some text in hidden field?

selenium-webdriver textfield hidden-field javascript java
3 Answers

you need to initialize a JavascriptExecutor, which will perform a javaScript command:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("document.getElementById('ElementId').setAttribute('type','text');");
driver.findElement(By.id("ElementId")).click();
driver.findElement(By.id("ElementId")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("ElementId")).sendKeys("theTextYouWant");

and if you want to hide it :

js.executeScript("document.getElementById('ElementId').setAttribute('type','hidden');");
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