Set value of input instead of sendKeys() - Selenium WebDriver nodejs

Question

I have a long string to test and sendKeys() takes too long. When I tried to set the value of the text the program crashes. I know the Selenium sendKeys() is the best way to test the actual user input, but for my application it takes too much time. So I am trying to avoid it.

Is there a way to set the value right away?

See this quick example:

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');  var driver = new webdriver.Builder().    withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).       build();  driver.get('http://www.google.com');  // find the search input field on google.com inputField = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name('q'));  var longstring = "test"; // not really long for the sake of this quick example  // this works but is slow inputField.sendKeys(longstring);  // no error but no values set inputField.value = longstring;  // Output: TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'setAttributes'  inputField.setAttributes("value", longstring); 

Answer 1

Try to set the element's value using the executeScript method of JavascriptExecutor:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; jse.executeScript("document.getElementById('elementID').setAttribute('value', 'new value for element')");