how to Clear or replace contents of input field using selenium?

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How can i clear the contents of an input field using ruby selenium?

i.e when page loads up there are values in the input filed but i want to replace them with new ones.

thank you

See also stackoverflow.com/questions/7732125/… for another answer (using .clear()) — bryn
– bryn, Commented Jan 25, 2013 at 10:41

Hannibal · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-17 06:58:56Z

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Come on guys... You can't be serious...

With selenium to clear an input field do this: selenium.type("") in ruby too.

And backspacing as many times as there are letters... Come on.. you don't do stuff like that.

Or in Ruby syntax: @browser.type "idofthefield", ""

answered Sep 17, 2010 at 6:58

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Mo. Over a year ago

thanks, I thought that selenium.type("") would just add nothing to the input already there. thanks

m3nda Over a year ago

The proper function is called clear(). You can't be serious ... readthedocs please.

Nafeez Quraishi · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-21 07:47:53Z

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This is how i cleared and replaced with new text in my Ruby based web portal test

@driver.find_element(:xpath, "//input[@name='ip-address']").clear
@driver.find_element(:xpath, "//input[@name='ip-address']").send_keys(new_ip_address)

edited Oct 21, 2018 at 7:47

answered Aug 9, 2018 at 8:40

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m3nda Over a year ago

This is the way to "clear" a field. Im glad you use .clear with no () function call ...

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