Clear text from textarea with selenium

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00:00 Clear Text From Textarea With Selenium
00:27 Accepted Answer Score 303
00:34 Answer 2 Score 20
00:45 Answer 3 Score 147
01:36 Answer 4 Score 32
01:50 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 303

driver.find_element_by_id('foo').clear()

ANSWER 2

Score 147

Option a)

If you want to ensure keyboard events are fired, consider using sendKeys(CharSequence).

Example 1:

 from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
 # ...
 webElement.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "a")
 webElement.sendKeys(Keys.DELETE)

Example 2:

 from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
 # ...
 webElement.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)  //do repeatedly, e.g. in while loop

WebElement

There are many ways to get the required WebElement, e.g.:

driver.find_element_by_id
driver.find_element_by_xpath
driver.find_element

Option b)

 webElement.clear()

If this element is a text entry element, this will clear the value.

Note that the events fired by this event may not be as you'd expect. In particular, we don't fire any keyboard or mouse events.

ANSWER 3

Score 32

I ran into a field where .clear() did not work. Using a combination of the first two answers worked for this field.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

#...your code (I was using python 3)

driver.find_element_by_id('foo').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + "a")
driver.find_element_by_id('foo').send_keys(Keys.DELETE)

ANSWER 4

Score 20

In the most recent Selenium version, use:

driver.find_element_by_id('foo').clear()