Automating textboxes, text areas, and buttons

The textbox and button elements are the most common elements used in any web application. Selenium WebDriver's WebElement interface provides methods to simulate keyboard entry into textboxes or text areas and perform clicks on a button control.

In this recipe, we will explore these methods to automate textbox, text-area, and button elements.

How to do it...

Here we will explore the clear(), sendKeys(), submit() and click() methods of the WebElement interface.

Clearing text from textbox and text-area elements

To clear the existing text value from textbox and text-area elements, we can use the clear() method, as shown in following code example:

// Find the text input element by its name
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

// Clear the existing text value using clear method
element.clear();

Entering text in textbox and text-area elements

To enter text value in a textbox or a text-area element, we can use the sendKeys...