How to use fill_in with find in Capybara (if possible)

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ants picture ants · Dec 16, 2011 · Viewed 57.2k times · Source

I'd like to do the following but can't due to the nature of fill_in expecting a locator as the first argument.

find(:css, "input[id$='donation_pledge_hundreds']").fill_in :with => "10"

I've also tried doing

element = find(:css, "input[id$='donation_pledge_hundreds']")   
fill_in element.<method> , :with => "10"

but there are no methods that return any data to identify the element to fill_in.

Any ideas of the best way of finding a field via a regex for use with fill_in?

Answer

Jon M picture Jon M · Dec 17, 2011

If you have a reference to the element itself you'd use set instead of fill_in:

find(:css, "input[id$='donation_pledge_hundreds']").set("10")

However for your specific example, fill_in should be able to find the element as you know it's ID:

fill_in 'donation_pledge_hundreds', with: "10"

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