Selenium C# : Insert text in website textbox with selenium C# webdirver

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Selenium C# : Insert text in website textbox with selenium C# webdirver

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Using selenium C# webdriver API we are able to insert text in website textbox element automatically in web browser. This article is very useful for automate website testing.

To enter text in textbox we need locator string of that particular textbox. To get locator string you need to your FireFox Element Locator Add-on.

Here is example for insert text in textbox automatically:
In this example first we open website 'www.google.com'. After that, we locate search textbox using locator add-on. Now in C# code we create object of FireFoxDriver Class.

We are using 'FindElement' method of 'FireFoxDriver' Class object, in this object we are finding element using 'XPath'. We are using 'OpenQA.Selenium.By.XPath' method. After finding element we are using 'SendKeys' method to insert text in textbox.

In 'SendKeys' method's parameter pass your desire text or string. This method exist in 'OpenQA.Selenium.IWebDriver.ISearchContext.FindElement' class.

Selenium C# Code :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Selenium;
using OpenQA;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        OpenQA.Selenium.IWebDriver objFF = new OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver();
        objFF.Navigate();
        objFF.Url = "http://www.google.com";
        objFF.FindElement(OpenQA.Selenium.By.XPath("//input[@id='gbqfq']")).SendKeys("ASP.NET");
                
    }
}