On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 09/24/2014 10:11 AM, Chris McMahon wrote:
>
>>
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/161411/3/tests/browser/
>> features/step_definitions/moderation_steps.rb
>>
>
> Yeah, that's what I understood as well (that he was talking about changing
> from <input> to a <textarea>).
>
> That doesn't seem correct behavior by Selenium, if so.  <input> and
> <textarea> are both different forms of text input.  <input> (or <input
> type="text">, which is equivalent) is for one-line text input, whereas
> <textarea> is multi-line text input.


That's what the HTML spec says, but that's not how things actually work in
Selenium, and it's been like that for a long time.  They don't think it be
like that but it do.  You can see the test work with "button" not
"text_field" in the example above.
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