As I was working on my code, I encountered an issue with a piece of HTML that is displayed after selecting something from a dropdown menu. Here is the snippet of code:
<div class="mx-0 w-100 row">
<textarea id="notes" placeholder="Write here..." required="" class="form-control"> </textarea>
</div>
I am using Selenium to interact with this textarea by clicking on it, entering text, and then exiting the element. While I have successfully achieved this functionality, I noticed that the results vary based on the selectors I use.
The following code snippet demonstrates my current working solution by waiting for the textarea to be visible and enabled before interacting with it:
const notes = await driver.wait(until.elementsLocated(By.css('textarea')), delay)
await driver.wait(until.elementIsVisible(notes[0]), delay)
await driver.wait(until.elementIsEnabled(notes[0]), delay)
await notes[0].sendKeys('Something to write')
// Sending TAB key to exit the textarea
await notes[0].sendKeys(Key.TAB)
However, if I try using a different selector like By.id('notes') or
By.xpath('//*[@id="notes"]')This situation has left me wondering why this behavior occurs. Although I prefer not to rely on numerical indexes for array elements, it seems necessary in this case. Can anyone shed light on why the other selector methods are not functioning as expected?