Selenium: delete contents from a textbox

Question

Through selenium. how to delete contents from textbox.

I have to delete the last 2 characters from text box using selenium command.

Ex.ABCD to AB.

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '11 at 15:05

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Try this -

selenium.type("text_box_object", "ABCD");
selenium.typeKeys("text_box_object", "\b");
selenium.typeKeys("text_box_object", "\b");

answered Jun 23 '11 at 15:05

rs79

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so "\b" is for backspace... Thanks in advance – smriti Jun 24 '11 at 08:45

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '14 at 07:12

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The keyPress event of selenium can be helpful:

selenium.sendKeys("text1", "ABCD");
selenium.sendKeys("text1", "\b");
selenium.sendKeys("text1", "\b");

This will Click Backspace key twice.

answered Mar 24 '14 at 07:12

Roshan Bhuran

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 06 '12 at 10:14

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For firefox, the backspace event works only if you setCursorPosition at the END of the text in the textarea, otherwise the typeKeys event will type at the begining of the text.

answered Apr 06 '12 at 10:14

Bogdan Corpade

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 23 '11 at 13:46

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Read the current value and store it as a variable. Then 'Type' out the value that you want in the target field (using a substring of the stored value).

answered Jun 23 '11 at 13:46

Peter Bernier

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Thanks a lot @Peter. This is good option,but I want to know is any selenium cmd available to delete the character from text box. – smriti Jun 24 '11 at 08:49

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 23 '11 at 01:51

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Click onto it, hit end key and backspace twice

answered Jun 23 '11 at 01:51

Orn Kristjansson

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@ Orn I need to do it through selenium command .is there any way to recognize the End key, Backspace key trough selenium as I know keyPressNative() cmd will help? Thanks – smriti Jun 23 '11 at 06:31

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