Trying to send/set text using webdriver sendkeys() function for text field

Here is the HTML

<table class="gridtable" cellspacing="0" __gwtcellbasedwidgetimpldispatchingfocus="true"    gwtcellbasedwidgetimpldispatchingblur="true" style="width: 100%;">
<thead>
<colgroup>
<tbody style="">
<tr class="GORM0XEDKD GORM0XEDME" onclick="">
   <td class="GORM0XEDJD GORM0XEDLD GORM0XEDMD GORM0XEDNE">
   <td class="GORM0XEDJD GORM0XEDLD GORM0XEDNE GORM0XEDGE">
       <div style="outline:none;" tabindex="0"></div>
   </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody style="display: none;">
<tfoot style="display: none;">
</table>

Xpath for the text field -
EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName=  By.xpath("//*[contains(@class,'GORM0XEDJD GORM0XEDLD  GORM0XEDNE GORM0XEDGE')]/div[1]");

• Tried following options. But all are failing to send text to EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName text field

  1. driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName).sendKeys("yahooo");
  
  2. this.WaitForElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
     WebElement tempname = driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
     JavascriptExecutor rightexecutor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
     rightexecutor.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value','yahoo')", tempname);
  
  3. WebElement Element=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
    Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
    builder.moveToElement(Element).sendKeys("yahoo").build().perform();
  
  4. WebElement Element=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
    Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
    builder.moveToElement(Element).click().sendKeys("yahoo").build().perform();
  
  5. WebElement Element=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
    Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
    builder.moveToElement(Element).click(Element).sendKeys("yahoo").build().perform();
  

• click() is working.

• Interestingly getText() is working for the same text field using same xpath. String val=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName).getText();
• Only sendKeys() is not working. And not throwing any error.
• Please help me to set/send text in my text field.

Trying to send/set text using webdriver sendkeys() function for text field

Here is the HTML

<table class="gridtable" cellspacing="0" __gwtcellbasedwidgetimpldispatchingfocus="true"    gwtcellbasedwidgetimpldispatchingblur="true" style="width: 100%;">
<thead>
<colgroup>
<tbody style="">
<tr class="GORM0XEDKD GORM0XEDME" onclick="">
   <td class="GORM0XEDJD GORM0XEDLD GORM0XEDMD GORM0XEDNE">
   <td class="GORM0XEDJD GORM0XEDLD GORM0XEDNE GORM0XEDGE">
       <div style="outline:none;" tabindex="0"></div>
   </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody style="display: none;">
<tfoot style="display: none;">
</table>

Xpath for the text field -
EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName=  By.xpath("//*[contains(@class,'GORM0XEDJD GORM0XEDLD  GORM0XEDNE GORM0XEDGE')]/div[1]");

• Tried following options. But all are failing to send text to EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName text field

  1. driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName).sendKeys("yahooo");
  
  2. this.WaitForElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
     WebElement tempname = driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
     JavascriptExecutor rightexecutor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
     rightexecutor.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value','yahoo')", tempname);
  
  3. WebElement Element=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
    Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
    builder.moveToElement(Element).sendKeys("yahoo").build().perform();
  
  4. WebElement Element=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
    Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
    builder.moveToElement(Element).click().sendKeys("yahoo").build().perform();
  
  5. WebElement Element=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
    Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
    builder.moveToElement(Element).click(Element).sendKeys("yahoo").build().perform();
  

• click() is working.

• Interestingly getText() is working for the same text field using same xpath. String val=driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName).getText();
• Only sendKeys() is not working. And not throwing any error.
• Please help me to set/send text in my text field.

• java
• javascript
• selenium
• xpath
• selenium-webdriver

• PLease share the error or exception you are getting – Anirudh Commented Nov 16, 2014 at 15:29
• sendKeys() executing successfully but text is not setting in text field. So i am not getting any error or exception. – Surajtech Commented Nov 16, 2014 at 15:36
• and in case of using native javascript? – Anirudh Commented Nov 16, 2014 at 15:37
• Yes ..even with using javascript failing to set/send text in text field. – Surajtech Commented Nov 16, 2014 at 15:42
• I don't see any input elements in your HTML. Looks like you are trying to send keys to a div element? – shri046 Commented Nov 16, 2014 at 15:42

3 Answers 3

Have you tried this:

Since you said that Click works,

driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName).click();
driver.switchTo().activeElement().sendKeys("Text");

or trying with builder click and activeElement as below

builder.moveToElement(Element).click();
driver.switchTo().activeElement().sendKeys("Text");

There is no direct option in Selenium/Webdriver to set the value in "div" tag.

You need to Set the attribute innerHTML using JavascriptExecutor as below:

   this.WaitForElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
   WebElement tempname = driver.findElement(DesignerLocators.EmailTemplateEditorTemplateName);
   JavascriptExecutor rightexecutor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
   rightexecutor.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('innerHTML','yahoo')", tempname);

Check and see that latest version on driver(chromeor firefox) is being used as per the browser version. Please do this basic verification first. This mostly resolves the issue.