How to clear the textfield without an id in Selenium in ruby?

Question

I am a newbie to Selenium and this doubt might be basic. I have an input element of type text which has some default value but i need to clear that value and insert a new value.

Can somebody help please? Thanks in advance.

How the default value coming on that field? – Arup Rakshit Jan 21 '13 at 12:56 — Arup Rakshit, Jan 21 '13 at 12:56

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '13 at 23:11

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In webdriver you can use the clear command

@d = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :url => "http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/")
@d.navigate.to <your site>
@d.find_element(:name, "username")
@d.clear() #clears any text that was in the username field
@d.send_keys ("user") #enters the new text

answered Jan 21 '13 at 23:11

Jeff Sanders

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this worked for me @driver.find_element(:name, "username").clear – Abdullah Aden Jun 03 '15 at 15:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '13 at 13:03

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It would be more helpful if you post question with code snippet. Anyhow, short answer.

selenium.type("//input[@name='INPUTNAME']","NEW VALUE");

answered Jan 21 '13 at 13:03

ch4nd4n

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any another way to handle using WebDriver methods? – abhinavvv Jan 21 '13 at 13:57
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Not that I am aware of, you can refer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11858366/how-to-type-some-text-in-hidden-field-in-webdriver – ch4nd4n Jan 21 '13 at 14:03

How to clear the textfield without an id in Selenium in ruby?

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