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

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.

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