Other text input methods?

Question

There are a bunch of websites with "search" input boxes.
If I input a word manually then it automatically search without need to click any buttons.

Using the following code:

             GeckoInputElement input = (GeckoInputElement)geckoHtmlElement;
             input.Value = "searchword";

The I see that search input box is filled but nothing happens automatically.
If I manually add space or any character then website works as expected.
Auto searches my wanted word.

I tried using input.Focus(); but still same.
Any ideas how I can input text into search box in a more advanced way or something like that?

You appear to be using serverside code to fill the element. The code needed for doing this kind of stuff has to be on the clientside — Carlos Muñoz, Oct 10 '14 at 13:53
Yeah, I thought about that. Didnt knew how to explain. Any idea how to make it clientise that It could work as I input text manually? — Aasas, Oct 10 '14 at 13:54
Perhaps causing a "blur" will work. Either call it directly, or move the focus elsewhere to force a blur event. This may be of use: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5212651/blur-vs-onblur — John Hatton, Oct 10 '14 at 15:17
aHH I'm not sure if you understood what Im asking for. Im making automation on geckofx browser and I need way to input text fields proper way which would trigger any javascripts or something which are on that webpage — Aasas, Oct 10 '14 at 15:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '15 at 08:37

I think the solution here is to manually trigger the event that triggers the search - for example the keyup event. I had the same problem which I solved by adding this code:

    nsAStringBase eventType = (nsAStringBase)new nsAString("keyup");
            var ev = browser.Document.CreateEvent("HTMLEvents");
            ev.DomEvent.InitEvent(eventType, false, false);
nameBox.GetEventTarget().DispatchEvent(ev);

You would need to inspect your page and see if there are any javascript events attached to your input. Good luck!

Other text input methods?

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