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I need to add around 1300 lines to textarea</p> <pre><code><textarea id="ctl00_phMainContent_KeywordForm_ControlPanel_txtKeywords" onload="CountLines(this);" onkeypress="CountLines(this);" wrap="off" cols="100" rows="6" name="ctl00$phMainContent$KeywordForm$ControlPanel$txtKeywords"></textarea> </code></pre> <p>The thing is my login to the website expires and I have to re-login and do that again infinite loop...</p> <p>Can anyone help me how to appeand the text (lines) Instantly? maybe some Javascript? or Ctrl+c + Ctrl+v? 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data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-29607150" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="29607150" data-comment-owner-id="2670887" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment29607150_19896653"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">thanks! Seems like this one will work! I just can't figure out how to use my list in the "value" part... I read text file lines and want it to be the value. (Needs to be with lines as well not one line) the value located in keywordurl and here is how I get it http://pastebin.com/v6gudYXK</span> – <a href="../../users/2670887/peak-dermutag" title="103 reputation" class="comment-user owner">Peak Dermutag</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/19895978/selenium-webdriver-s-sendkeys-too-slow-to-fill-in-textarea-input#comment29607150_19896653"><span title="2013-11-11T06:59:52.720 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Nov 11 '13 at 06:59</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-29612142" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="29612142" data-comment-owner-id="315168" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment29612142_19896653"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Your JavaScript is not probably correct. Check the Firefox's Web Console for JavaScript syntax errors, etc. Remember properly quote strings.</span> – <a href="../../users/315168/mikko-ohtamaa" title="82,057 reputation" class="comment-user ">Mikko Ohtamaa</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/19895978/selenium-webdriver-s-sendkeys-too-slow-to-fill-in-textarea-input#comment29612142_19896653"><span title="2013-11-11T10:03:11.080 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Nov 11 '13 at 10:03</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-29631160" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="29631160" data-comment-owner-id="2670887" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment29631160_19896653"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">thank you for the solution. It works. But one limitation you cannot add using javascript value with separate lines only if it was 1 line of information I would be able to use it. And because my text files is url in each line I need to paste it exactly as in text file. So a ctrl +c + ctrl + v should be the only way to do it.</span> – <a href="../../users/2670887/peak-dermutag" title="103 reputation" class="comment-user owner">Peak Dermutag</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/19895978/selenium-webdriver-s-sendkeys-too-slow-to-fill-in-textarea-input#comment29631160_19896653"><span title="2013-11-11T19:34:44.860 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Nov 11 '13 at 19:34</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-29634559" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="29634559" data-comment-owner-id="315168" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment29634559_19896653"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Naturally, you can insert line breaks to <textarea>, as millions of pages are doing it every day. You only need to figure out how to do it in JavaScript. I cannot outright tell how to do it, so I suggest you open a separate question for it. – Mikko Ohtamaa Nov 11 '13 at 21:23