Clear input field with driver.find_element_by_xpath().clear()

Question

I have one input box where have numbers, I want to clean it but when call

driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/form/section/div/div/input').clear()

they not remove. If I run same from Python Shell it working. Tried with timeout but can't clear.

I need to sendkeys

driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/form/section/div/div/input').send_keys('50')

Tried

time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/form/section/div/div/input').clear()
time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/form/section/div/div/input').send_keys('50')

and result is 2050

willb · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-05 06:05:07Z

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This seems to be a common problem with newer versions of chromedriver on selenium. I found a hacky solution in just sending a bunch of backspace keys to the selected web element.

for i in range(100):
  WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)

Could even do

for i in range(len(current_field_value)):
  WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)

answered Dec 5, 2020 at 6:05

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Marko Stevanović Over a year ago

for i in range(20):     driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[3]/form/section/div/div/input').send_keys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)

This working

John Gordon Over a year ago

If the cursor is at the beginning of the field, backspace won't do anything. Where does selenium put the cursor?

willb Over a year ago

Interesting point @JohnGordon [Selenium Docs] (selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/html/…) I found this related to selenium cursor movement, which you could use to move the cursor to the end before backspace. I havent tried to use it in python gonna test it out

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