Rails/ spec fill_in using placeholder

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In my rspec test, how do I fill_in a text field using Placeholder. I cannot use id and name as they are auto generated for the nested form.

<input class="input-medium inline" id="user_kids_attributes_new_1342116887461_first_name" name="user[kids_attributes][new_1342116887461][first_name]" placeholder="First Name" size="30" type="text">

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score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 16:34

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There is also another way:

fill_in :placeholder => "Fill in some text", :with => "Text"

answered Mar 04 '13 at 16:34

x3qt

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From at least version Capybara 2.3 (maybe earlier) fill_in finds placeholder text. – IAmNaN Jun 26 '14 at 17:40
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`Capybara 2.5`, you should not specify `placeholder` key but use it like `fill_in "placeholder name", with: "text"` – freemanoid Oct 14 '15 at 17:58

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '12 at 23:41

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Placeholder support will be in the next version of Capybara. For now, try:

find("input[placeholder='First Name']").set "value"

answered Jul 13 '12 at 23:41

Tanzeeb Khalili

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 09 '18 at 14:41

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'Card number' being the placeholder

This should work, EXCEPT you're trying to fill an input inside an iframe

In that case: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53227758/1248725

fill_in('Card number', with: "#{arg1} #{arg2} #{arg3} #{arg4}")

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answered Nov 09 '18 at 14:41

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Rails/ spec fill_in using placeholder

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