Implementing an extension for the WebElement object to set the element attribute values

Setting an element's attribute can be useful in various situations where the test needs to manipulate properties of an element. For example, for a masked textbox, the sendKeys() method may not work well, and setting the value of the textbox will help to overcome these issues. The WebElement interface does not have a direct method that supports setting all types of attributes.

In this recipe, we will create an extension for the WebElement and provide a method to set the attribute value of an element at runtime.

Getting ready

Create a new Java class file for the WebElementExtender.java class. We will use this class to host all the extension methods for elements.

How to do it...

Add the setAttribute() method to the WebElementExtender class, as follows:

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.internal.WrapsDriver;

public class WebElementExtender...