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

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This worked for me   mElement sendKeys Keys HOME Keys chord Keys SHIFT Keys END  MY VALUE

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I think you can try to firstly select all the text in the field and then send the new sequence   from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys element sendKeys Keys chord Keys CONTROL   a     55

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Use this one  it is trusted solution and works well for all browsers   protected void clearInput WebElement webElement           isIE   - just checks is it IE or not - use your own implementation     if  isIE    amp  amp   file  equals webElement getAttribute  type                  workaround            if IE and input s type is file - do not try to clear it             If you send             - empty string - it will find file by empty path            - backspace char - it will process like a non-visible char            In both cases it will throw a bug                         Just replace it with new value when it is need to        else              if you have no StringUtils in project  check value still empty yet         while   StringUtils isEmpty webElement getAttribute  value                        u0008  - is backspace char             webElement sendKeys   u0008                        If input has type  file  - do not clear it for IE  It will try to find file by empty path and will throw a bug   More details you could find on my blog

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This solved my problem when I had to deal with HTML page with embedded JavaScript   WebElement empSalary    driver findElement By xpath PayComponentAmount    Actions mouse2   new Actions driver   mouse2 clickAndHold empSalary  sendKeys Keys chord Keys CONTROL   a     1234   build   perform     JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor  driver  js executeScript  arguments 0  onchange     empSalary

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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

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In case it helps anyone  the C  equivalent of ZloiAdun s answer is   element SendKeys Keys Control    a    element SendKeys  55

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You can also clear the field before sending it keys   element clear   element sendKeys  Some text here

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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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Had issues using most of the mentioned methods since textfield had not accepted keyboard input  and the mouse solution seem not complete   This worked for to simulate a click in the field  selecting the content and replacing it with new        Actions actionList   new Actions driver        actionList clickAndHold WebElement  sendKeys newTextFieldString        release   build   perform

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Use the following   driver findElement By id  id    sendKeys Keys chord Keys CONTROL   a   Keys DELETE    Your Value

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WebElement p  driver findElement By id  quot your id name quot      p sendKeys Keys chord Keys CONTROL   quot a quot     quot 55 quot

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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

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