如何在不使用剪贴板或操作 CTRL+C、CTRL+V 的情况下将字符串中的“\\t”或“tab”发送到 selenium 中的文本框

Question

I have a string like this.

String inputString="This\tis\ta\tString";
Webelement inputbox=inputBoxXpath;
inputbox.sendKeys(inputString);

The problem with code above is that it sends 'This' then \\t is considered a keypress TAB which then moves the focus to next element.

To avoid that I am using the Clipboard way and that works flawlessly as long as the app is in focus.

//Partial solution
StringSelection selection = new StringSelection(inputString);
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
clipboard.setContents(selection, selection);
inputbox.click()
send_keys("CTRL+V") // Paste the string in clipboard.

This method works however, when the program is running and I copy something else to Clipboard then the inputString gets replaced by the contents of Clipboard.

This also causes issues if I want to run the code on a server VM

I have also tried Actions to send the keys however the output is still faulty.

What I am looking for is a way to use native sendKeys('string') where string contains \\t and \\n, without using CTRL+C and CTRL+V or getCLipboard and setClipboard.

Answer 1

You can do it with javascript. This allow you to set the value directly into the object.

In Java you execute it like this:

    @Test
    public void OptionClickTest() throws InterruptedException {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "src/test/resources/chromedriver.exe");
        var driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");

        var object = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']"));
        ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].value='this\tis\tmy\ttext'", object);

}

It doesn't work on all types of input boxes - but it worked for me on google so it's worth a go:

Answer 2

将输入字符串中的 '\\t' 替换为 '\ '（ Unicode 字符 'CHARACTER TABULATION' 的Java 编码）