Selenium sendKeys does not work with pound symbol

Asked Oct 16 '19 at 13:54

Active Oct 16 '19 at 16:21

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I am trying to type '£' on input field. It doesn't work. It throws an error 'missing command parameters'

I have tried sendKeys('£') and sendKeys('\u00A3'). Neither works. However for other chars like ™ work fine with sendKeys and also with unicode

describe("Google search", function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
        browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
        browser.get("https://google.com");

        browser.wait(EC.presenceOf(element(by.name("q"))), 5000);
    });

    it("should enter unicode characters", function () {
        element(by.name("q")).sendKeys('\u00A3');
        browser.sleep(10000);
    });
});

edited Oct 16 '19 at 16:21

asked Oct 16 '19 at 13:54

Webinator

Are you able to manually type that symbol in to the input box? – Sureshmani Kalirajan Oct 16 '19 at 14:29
Yes, manually copy paste works – Webinator Oct 16 '19 at 14:51
This works just fine in python when i send \u00A3. Are you getting any errors? or any other character entered? – Sureshmani Kalirajan Oct 16 '19 at 15:07
I am getting error "missing command parameters". I am using jwebdriver which in turn call selenium sendKeys – Webinator Oct 16 '19 at 15:17
please add the error message to OP. – Sureshmani Kalirajan Oct 16 '19 at 15:21
Added the error message to the question – Webinator Oct 16 '19 at 16:22
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/200967/discussion-between-webinator-and-sureshmani). – Webinator Oct 16 '19 at 16:39
Check this:- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9853463/enable-utf-8-encoding-for-javascript – sathiya Oct 17 '19 at 07:05

Selenium sendKeys does not work with pound symbol

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