Selenium chaining IWebElement actions in C# [duplicate]

Question

[FindsBy(How = How.XPath, Using = "//input[@id='Username']")]
private IWebElement txtUsername;

public void EditTxtUsername(string text)
{
    txtUsername.Clear();
    txtUsername.SendKeys(text);
}

Is there a way in C# to chain the two actions into txtUsername.Clear().SendKeys(text);?

Answer 1

I would advise against chaining at this level, for reasons stated at Chaining WebElement actions.

The preferred approach would be to have a helper method, reducing the code duplication of clearing a field (and possibly other actions) every time you want to set text.

public void SetText(IWebElement element, string text)
{
    element.Clear();
    element.SendKeys(text);
}

Extensions methods could also work but due to overloading restrictions, the method names would have to be different (or the number of arguments), for example:

public static IWebElement MyClear(this IWebElement element)
{
    element.Clear();
    return element;
}

public static IWebElement MySendKeys(this IWebElement element, string text)
{
    element.SendKeys(text);
    return element;
}