How to append text in textarea having existing text in it

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This is my current code

WebElement textarea_click = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"gvPods_txt_Comment_" + i + "\" ]"));
                        
             textarea_click.click();
             Thread.sleep(15000);
System.out.println("Text area is open");

                        
textarea_click.append = ("XWC status is NOGO");

Thread.sleep(2000);`

I intend to append the value of textarea_click.

Lajos Arpad · Accepted Answer · 2023-12-21 09:58:10Z

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You can get the value of the textarea via

textarea_click.getAttribute("value")

And you can append the value via

setAttribute(textarea_click,"value",textarea.getAttribute("value") + "XWC status is NOGO");

Sources:

https://vaadin.com/forum/thread/3803119/get-value-from-textfield-textarea-using-selenium https://groups.google.com/g/selenium-users/c/3J27G1GxCa8?pli=1

answered Dec 21, 2023 at 9:58

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Tejashree Veer Over a year ago

This didn't worked.I tried in below manner WebElement textarea_click = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"gvPods_txt_Comment_" + i + "\" ]")); driver.findElement(By.name("gvPods$ctl10$txt_Comment" )); textarea_click.click(); Thread.sleep(15000); System.out.println("Text area is open"); textarea_click.getAttribute("value"); setAttribute(textarea_click, "value",textarea_click.getAttribute("value") + " XWC is NOGO");

Lajos Arpad Over a year ago

@TejashreeVeer can you elaborate on how did it fail? Did you get an error?

Tejashree Veer Over a year ago

i don't get any error. But i don't see the result also. The value which i want to add to the value already present in textarea is not getting added.

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