How to upload multiple files using SendKeys Selenium

Question

I have an element with following HTML:

<input type="file" name="upload" value="[]" id="upload1" class="upload">

To the best of my understanding its value is an array/list and it's supposed to store uploaded files paths (multiple files are allowed).

I use following code to upload ONE file:

.FindElementById("upload1").SendKeys ("C:\file1.txt") 

and it works just fine. However, i need to upload multiple files but I do not get how to populate the array with multiple filepaths using SendKeys .

I use vba to automated data entry from within excel.

Answer 1

To upload multiple files you can construct the character string adding all the absolute path of the files seperated by \n as follows:

.FindElementById("upload1").SendKeys("C:/TextFile1.txt \n C:/TextFile2.txt \n C:/TextFile3.txt");

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Trying to upload multiple files to a website using Python and Selenium but only the first file is picked up and not the others, any idea why?
• Trying to upload multiple files to a website using Python and Selenium but only the first file is picked up and not the others, any idea why?

Answer 2

EDIT

Web page interface is as follows.

A user sees "Browse" button and "Add More" button.

"Add More" button and its script: button type="button" class="button md-btn md-btn-wave waves-effect waves-button md-btn-primary" id="addFile">Add More

When "Add More" is clicked second "Browse" button appears. Second "Browse" button script: input type="file" name="upload" class="upload">

A user can add up to 3 more "Browse" buttons (4 in total). The script of the 3 added is the same (input type="file" name="upload" class="upload">).

Any ideas