clear() does not clear the textbox with selenium and python and firefox

Question

clear() does not work in this case. I am getting append after append.
searchForMovie.clear() is not working... I have also tried to send
CTRL + 'a', and then the DELETE. Again all I got are just appends...

 for movie in allMissing:

            time.sleep (10)

            searchForMovie = WebDriverWait (driver, 10).until \
                (EC.presence_of_element_located ((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#search-text")))  

            searchForMovie.send_keys (movie)

            # click
            enter = WebDriverWait (driver, 10).until \
                (EC.presence_of_element_located ((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#search-submit")))  

            driver.execute_script ("arguments[0].click()", enter)


            # clear the search text box
            searchForMovie = WebDriverWait (driver, 10).until \
                (EC.presence_of_element_located ((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#search-text")))

            searchForMovie.clear()

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50691625/363573 – Stephan Dec 29 '19 at 19:10 — Stephan, Dec 29 '19 at 19:10

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '18 at 12:14

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To clear the textbox you need to induce WebDriverWait with expected_conditions set to element_to_be_clickable, next invoke click() on the WebElement and then invoke clear() as follows :

# clear the search text box
searchForMovie = WebDriverWait (driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#search-text")))
searchForMovie.click()
searchForMovie.clear()

answered Mar 07 '18 at 12:14

undetected Selenium

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I got this error message, after trying your solution. The element reference of is stale; either the element is no longer attached to the DOM, it is not in the current frame context, or the document has been refreshed – LetzerWille Mar 07 '18 at 12:28
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Once you `searchForMovie.send_keys(movie)` and subsequently `driver.execute_script ("arguments[0].click()", enter)` the _HTML DOM_ is bound to change. So you need to come back to the same url where you started looking out for `searchForMovie = WebDriverWait (driver, 10).until \ (EC.presence_of_element_located ((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#search-text")))` – undetected Selenium Mar 07 '18 at 12:34
This is not working, i tried it on Instagram login. – Jawad Ahmad Khan Jan 19 '20 at 08:54
So in what context does that clear() API entry point function by design? It's clearly some kind of special-casing, but not documented accessibly to us. – Dec 08 '20 at 16:53

Jortega · Answer 2 · 2022-02-10T13:12:50.357

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In case .clear() does not work you can try:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

#...your code (I was using python 3)

driver.find_element_by_id('foo').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + "a");
driver.find_element_by_id('foo').send_keys(Keys.DELETE);

edited Feb 10 '22 at 13:12

answered Aug 13 '20 at 15:36

Jortega

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not working pls stop giving wrong answer – myworldbox Oct 13 '21 at 13:16
Actually, oddly, this was the only answer variant that worked for me - I was having trouble clearing a password field, and all the variants of using clear() didn't work, despite the field being clickable and displayed. – Ian Moriarty Mar 13 '23 at 20:53
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This is a valid solution but on Mac OS it should be `Keys.COMMAND` – Jackson Bush Jun 12 '23 at 16:23

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 19 '20 at 09:45

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I think it should be as easy as:

driver.execute_script("$('#search-text').val('');")

If you want to do it without jQuery, you could use plain javascript:

document.getElementById('search-text').value = '';

answered Jan 19 '20 at 09:45

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This solution does not appear to trigger a 'change' event. – Chuck Sep 21 '20 at 17:23
Also, the change happens asynchronistically with subsequent python code. – Chuck Sep 21 '20 at 17:51

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