On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, the_zonker <the.zonk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Environment: > watir-webdriver 2.0.0 > Ruby 1.9.2 > Firefox 3.6, IE8 >
It's a good practice to always try the latest released version before reporting issues. watir-webdriver is currently at 0.2.2. > I faced with a problem - I need to put a content of XML file into text > area. > The content is quite long and the process of filling is extremely > slow. > > This slowness of filling causes a timeout error: How long is the string? WebDriver simulates native key presses on some platforms (like Windows), which may be slow. > > > For putting value into text area I use: > text_area.set(value) > > Are there any other ways to fill in text area more quick? > I tried Javascript via execute_script method but JavaScript cannot > handle XML content (probably because of quotes) as a valid element > value. Using execute_script should work. If you could provide an example string where it doesn't work, I could probably help you out. Another approach is to do what a user would do: paste in the XML from the clipboard. If you have the XML content on the clipboard, you should be able to do that by sending Control-V: text_area.send_keys [:control, 'v'] Jari PS. The full list of keys you can send can be found here: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rb/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/keys.rb -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
