How do you enter data from a jhtml Area element using selenium?

Question

Now in the application that i have to automate, there's a jhtml Area element. This is a sample jhtml area: http://pietschsoft.com/demo/jhtmlarea/.

So the jhtml area has two elements for the text you enter. I have tried entering text using the text area tag. But doesn't work out. Any ideas?

Answer 1

As per given sample URL, if you observe the HTML of JHTML it inside the iframe, so to enter the text inside you have to first switch to the iframe and than enter the text. Your code may look like below.

WebElement iframe = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe")); // xpath of the iframe
driver.switchTo(iframe);

// Now enter the text in text area.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body")).sendKeys("Whatever text you want to send");

Answer 2

As per your example URL, please try the following code in order to switch to the iframe for the jHTMLArea and manipulate the body text. The code is relatively straight forward, prepping the driver, navigate to the page, switching to the iframe and then manipulating the body, asserting the change and quitting the driver instance.

@Test
public void jarea() {
    String test = "Hello";
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/Automation/Chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver d = new ChromeDriver();


    d.navigate().to("http://pietschsoft.com/demo/jhtmlarea/");  


    WebElement iframe = d.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe")); 
    d.switchTo().frame(iframe);

    WebElement jAreaBody = d.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body"));
    jAreaBody.clear();
    jAreaBody.sendKeys(test);
    assertEquals(jAreaBody.getText(), test);
    d.quit();

}