How to enter text into tinymce text area using Selenium RC for Eclipse Java

java selenium tinymce selenium-rc
Josh picture Josh · Aug 14, 2012 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I'm currently trying to automate test cases where I need to enter values for a required Text Area field.

The text area uses TinyMCE 3.4.9

I found a blog online that suggested selectFrame (iFrame containing tinymce) focus (tinymce) type (tinymce, text)

that didn't help since Selenium RC can't locate the iframe. However, I tried this with the Firefox plugin and at the very least I can select the iframe and focus the editor, but I can't enter any text. With RC, nothing I do seems to work

I also tried entering text using the html editor. So selenium can emulate clicking the button to open the html editor, then RC would either fail to find the text area or I'll get an error such that the element is no longer attached to the DOM (something along that line)

Sorry if this sounds confusing.

Answer

Dejan picture Dejan · Nov 27, 2012

This worked for me:

command: runScript target: tinyMCE.activeEditor.setContent('Replace with your text')

Got it from http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27960

Related questions

How can I ask the Selenium-WebDriver to wait for few seconds in Java?

I'm working on a Java Selenium-WebDriver. I added driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS); and WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(By.id("textbox")); because my Applications takes few seconds to load the User Interface. So I set 2 seconds implicitwait. but I …

Read More
Wait for page load in Selenium

How do you make Selenium 2.0 wait for the page to load?

Read More
Page scroll up or down in Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2) using java

I have written the following code in Selenium 1 (a.k.a Selenium RC) for page scrolling using java: selenium.getEval("scrollBy(0, 250)"); What is the equivalent code in Selenium 2 (WebDriver)?

Read More