Selenium WebDriver Java keyDown not working

Question

I'm learning Selenium WebDriver and have one problem. I want to search on amazon website for "car" with uppercaste. I use keyDown, but it does not work. The test programm fits only "car" with lowercase.

HTML code:

<input id="twotabsearchtextbox" value="" name="field-keywords" autocomplete="off" placeholder="" class="nav-input" dir="auto" tabindex="19" type="text">

JAVA code:

 public class FirstTestCase {

            public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

                System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Users\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.21.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");


                WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
                driver.get("https://www.amazon.com/ref=nav_logo");

                WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.id("twotabsearchtextbox"));

                Actions builder2 = new Actions(driver);
                Action seria = builder2
                        .moveToElement(search)
                        .click()
                        .keyDown(search, Keys.SHIFT)
                        .sendKeys(search, "car")
                        .keyUp(search, Keys.SHIFT)
                        .sendKeys(Keys.ENTER)
                        .build();
                seria.perform();
    }

Firefox version: 61.0.1

Geckodriver version: 0.21.0

I would be grateful for help :)

is there any specific reason why you didn't try `search.send_keys("CAR")`? — GPT14, Jul 17 '18 at 08:48
@GPT13 yeah I'learning and want on this example learn to use Keyboard Events :) — Patryk Smandzich, Jul 17 '18 at 08:56
since geckodriver, is it possible you're hitting this bug? https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/646 — Len, Jul 17 '18 at 09:31
@SirLenz0rlot I did a few test with the HTML code there. The Shift button (down: 16) alone works, but the combination with shift + "car" did not work. — Patryk Smandzich, Jul 17 '18 at 10:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '18 at 09:15

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 seria.keyDown(search, Keys.SHIFT).sendKeys("car").keyDown(search, Keys.SHIFT).build().perform();

This code should work properly for you.

answered Jul 17 '18 at 09:15

Karthikeyan R

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Still "car" with lowercase – Patryk Smandzich Jul 17 '18 at 09:26
@PatrykSmandzich : When I am running your code, It is working fine at my end. – cruisepandey Jul 17 '18 at 09:33
@PatrykSmandzich search.sendKeys(Keys.SHIFT,"car"); Can you try this – Karthikeyan R Jul 17 '18 at 09:53
@Karthikeyan R Still the same – Patryk Smandzich Jul 17 '18 at 10:04
@PatrykSmandzich search.sendKeys("car".toUpperCase); This should work, I just tried in mine and it works. – Karthikeyan R Jul 17 '18 at 10:18
@Karthikeyan R Yes, this work. But I want to use the SHIFT button. Now for writing, then for e.g. shortcuts (like Shift+t) – Patryk Smandzich Jul 17 '18 at 10:33
For Shift+t combinations you can use Robot class Robot robot = new Robot(); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_T); robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_T); For the whole text "car" to be entered using Robot you can write Robot robot = new Robot(); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_C); robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_C); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_A); robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_A); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_R); robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_R); – Karthikeyan R Jul 17 '18 at 10:51
@KarthikeyanR thanks for the idea. I will use it. :) – Patryk Smandzich Jul 18 '18 at 08:07

Selenium WebDriver Java keyDown not working

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