Selenium webdriver send_keys() not working properly

Question

I am using selenium web driver to automate front end web UI actions in Python script. In this regard to input value to a text filed (mandatory field), driver.find_element_by_xpath(<xpath>).send_keys(<value>) code is used.

Though I am able to see that value has been typed in the concerned text field, an error message saying text box cannot be empty is being thrown on the UI.

Browser : 23.0 (Also tried with old version like 20.0, 16.0 which reproduces same issue) Python Version : 2.7

Here is my code:

sel = webdriver.Firefox()
sel.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='minBid']")'.send_keys("2") 
sel.find_element_by_xpath("//div[text()='Save']")

Upon running this snippet, UI complaints saying min bid is not supplied.

Please help solve this challenge. Thank you.

Here is the code snippet: ' sel = webdriver.Firefox() sel.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='minBid']")'.send_keys("2") sel.find_element_by_xpath("//div[text()='Save']")' Upon running this snippet, UI complaints sayin min bid is not supplied — sans09
– sans09, Commented Aug 28, 2013 at 10:23

Robbie Wareham · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-28 12:25:34Z

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Try clicking on the field before input;

sel.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='minBid']")'.click
sel.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='minBid']")'.send_keys("2")

answered Aug 28, 2013 at 12:25

Robbie Wareham

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