Set the value of an input

elem_set_value() sets the value of an HTML input element to a string.

Usage

elem_set_value(x, text, timeout = NULL)

elem_send_keys(x, ..., modifiers = NULL, timeout = NULL)

elem_clear_value(x, timeout = NULL)

Arguments

x

A selenider_element object. For elem_send_keys(), this can be NULL, meaning that the keys will be sent to the current page (or the currently focused element) instead of a specific element.

text

A string to set the value of the input element to.

timeout

How long to wait for the element to exist.

...

A set of inputs to send to x.

modifiers

A character vector; one or more of "shift", "ctrl"/"control", "alt", and "command"/meta". Note that when using chromote as a backend, these do not work on Mac OS.

Value

x, invisibly.

Details

elem_send_keys() sends a set of inputs to an element.

elem_clear_value() sets the value of an HTML element to "", removing any existing content.

See also

Other actions: elem_click(), elem_hover(), elem_scroll_to(), elem_select(), elem_submit()

Examples

html <- "
<input
  type='text'
  oninput='recordChange(event)'
  onkeypress='return checkEnter(event);'
/>
<p></p>
"

js <- "
function recordChange(e) {
  document.getElementsByTagName('p').item(0).innerText = e.target.value;
}

function checkEnter(e) {
  // If the key pressed was Enter
  if (e.keyCode == 13) {
    document.getElementsByTagName('p').item(0).innerText = 'Enter pressed!';
    return false;
  }
  return true;
}
"

session <- minimal_selenider_session(html, js = js)

elem_expect(s("p"), has_exact_text(""))

input <- s("input")

elem_set_value(input, "my text")

elem_expect(s("p"), has_text("my text"))

elem_clear_value(input)

elem_expect(s("p"), has_exact_text(""))

elem_send_keys(input, keys$enter)

elem_expect(s("p"), has_text("Enter pressed!"))