Manipulate HTML Input field with no "Value" attribute

Question

I'm struggling with an automation task where the HTML site has an input field, but when I search it out in DOM Explorer it looks like this:

<input name="txtFirewall" id="txtFirewall" type="text">

As you can see, there is no value attribute. Once you give in smthing manually to the search field it changes like this:

<input name="txtFirewall" id="txtFirewall" type="text">value="Something">

How can I add the Value attribute and assign value to it with python? Can it be even done with Selenium?

There was nothing useful here? https://www.google./search?q=add+value+attribute+selenium ? I see several interesting links — mplungjan, Nov 30 '17 at 12:11
`'element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("txtFirewall")` and then `driver.execute_script("arguments[0].setAttribute('value','whatever')", element)'` according to this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/817218/how-to-get-the-entire-document-html-as-a-string — mplungjan, Nov 30 '17 at 12:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '17 at 13:38

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This code can help you:

search_field = driver.find_element_by_id("txtFirewall")
search_field.send_keys("Something")

Hope it helps you!

answered Nov 30 '17 at 13:38

Ratmir Asanov

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 12:49

To add the value attribute and assign the value 'Something' to it you can use the following code block :

element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input#txtFirewall.txtFirewall")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].setAttribute('value','Something')", element)

Manipulate HTML Input field with no "Value" attribute

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