Hillary,
See if specifying the ASCII code for the Carriage Return will work.
The Carriage Return is ASCII character 10.
Here an example in irb:
irb(main):006:0> puts"a" + 10.chr + "b" + 10.chr + "c"
a
b
c
=> nil
So you code would be:
b.text_field(:id, "x").set("a" + 10.chr + "b" + 10.chr + "c")
Joe
On Aug 15, 6:11 pm, hillary <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a text area that allows the user to copy and past from a file values
> that are separated by a carriage return like this:
> a
> b
> c
>
> In watir, this code worked:
> b.text_field(:id, "x").set("a
> b
> c")
>
> But when i tried this in web-driver it doesn't anymore. It enters text but
> the values are no longer separated by a carriage return.
>
> I've tried everything in this
> post<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/watir-general/SONhM3BnJD4/discussion>.
> And I can't use send_keys because the text area doesn't allow the user to
> use up, down, or enter/return.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
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