How to send text to the username field using Selenium and Java

Question

I am trying to send information to a textfield and I am having difficulties locating it. There are multiple elements with the same name and it's difficult to find it.

<div class="form-group">
  <label for="username">LDAPTEST Username</label>
  <input type="text" name="username" id="username" class="form-control top" title="This field is required." autofocus="autofocus" data-qa-selector="username_field" required="required">
  <p class="gl-field-error hidden">This field is required.</p> 
</div>

I have tried the following:

username_By = By.id("username")

username_By = By.cssSelector("input[data-qa-selector='username_field']")

I am getting TimeoutException when I am waiting for the visibility of the element.

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(username_By));

Any suggestions on how to locate the element? Thanks

Answer 1

//label[contains(text(),'LDAPTEST Username')] Please use this xpath to locate elements to send keys

Answer 2

It is a username field possibly you intent to send some text to the desired field. So to send a character sequence to the LDAPTEST Username field, instead of visibilityOfElementLocated() you need to use WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• cssSelector:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("input.form-control.top#username[name='username']"))).sendKeys("anibal-bojorquez");
  

• xpath:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[@class='form-control top' and @id='username'][@name='username']"))).sendKeys("anibal-bojorquez");
  

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Update

Try the following alternatives:

• cssSelector:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("label[for='username']"))).sendKeys("anibal-bojorquez");
  

• xpath:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//label[@for='username']"))).sendKeys("anibal-bojorquez");