How to select this textarea?

Question

I need to put the cursor in the textarea element using Selenium. The element has no ID. I have tried:

eventDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("textarea[class*=\"CodeMirror\"")).click();

and it throws NoSuchElementException

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-25T13:38:41.063

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textarea has no @class - it's an attribute of ancestor div. Try below code instead:

eventDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.CodeMirror textarea")).click();

or with ExplicitWait:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(eventDriver,10);

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("div.CodeMirror textarea"))).click();

Update

WebElement element = eventDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.CodeMirror textarea"))
JavascriptExecutor jse = ((JavascriptExecutor)eventDriver);
jse.executeScript("arguments[0].click()", element);

edited May 25 '18 at 13:38

answered May 25 '18 at 13:10

Andersson

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It throws a different exception: ElementNotInteractable. The detail in the exception says "Element could not be scrolled into view." – nicomp May 25 '18 at 13:14
Do you need to click it or to enter some string? – Andersson May 25 '18 at 13:16
Yes, I need to do both – nicomp May 25 '18 at 13:16
New exception: Expected condition failed: waiting for element to be clickable: By.cssSelector: div.CodeMirror textarea (tried for 10 second(s) with 500 MILLISECONDS interval) – nicomp May 25 '18 at 13:26
Do you need to hover textarea to make it interactive? – Andersson May 25 '18 at 13:32
I don't know. Can I programmatically hover just in case? – nicomp May 25 '18 at 13:36
Yes, you can try [ActionChains](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17293914/how-to-perform-mouseover-function-in-selenium-webdriver-using-java). Also try updated answer once again – Andersson May 25 '18 at 13:39
Welcome. You can [accept an answer](https://stackoverflow.com/help/accepted-answer) if it solved your problem. Thanks – Andersson May 25 '18 at 14:38

How to select this textarea?

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