Selenium WebDriver Java - Cannot fill out input field in a form

Question

I'm trying to use .sendKeys(…) to fill out an input field in a form.

HTML I'm working with:

<tr>
   <td class="multi-line required" style="min-width:120px;">Name:</td>
   <td>
      <div style="position:relative">
         <span style="display:inline-block">
            <input type="text" id="_96a1fa0eccfaf628" size="40" maxlength="64" placeholder="" name="96a1fa0eccfaf628" value="">
         </span>
         <font class="error">*</font>
      </div>
   </td>
</tr>

The code I'm using:

driver.findElement(By.id("_96a1fa0eccfaf628")).sendKeys("Test Org 002");

I have also tried By.name("96a1fa0eccfaf628") , but nope.

The error Im getting: http://pastebin.com/tZ8FSwqx

Answer 1

I have a similar problem. First click in input element, then clear and finally sendkeys.

driver.findElement(By.XX("your_selector")).click();
driver.findElement(By.XX("your_selector")).clear();

Then write your sendKeys function.

Answer 2

It seems problem with your locator (Id & name both has some dynamic & random values). Try with below locator

By.xpath("//td[contains(text(),'Name')]/following-sibling::td//input[@type='text']")

Answer 3

Is the element ID Dynamically named "_96a1fa0eccfaf628" or is this always the name of the ID? If it's dynamically named for example the name changes each session then that may be your issue. If the element is always called "_96a1fa0eccfaf628" then I would try using the "type" command or using a click command to click the field and then do the sendKeys command with a small pause of say 400 ms in between each step and see if that works.