Simulate Paste?

platform language, code for what you've tried?

also, the answer to this might depend on what you're trying to do/test and how the fields you're interacting with behave.

Without more concrete context, I'd say start by copying the contents that you want to the clipboard, focusing on the field that you want and issue CTRL+V or the equivalent of the OS you're on, then validate the content on the field.

Similar to what is described here: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/8114#issue-964733495

I guess I assumed there'd be a helper for pasting. Users can paste in a number of ways (right click, shortcut, password app). I want to just emit a paste event and make sure that works.

There is nothing "native" in Playwright ie locator.paste(buffer,contentType), so we have to do this in user/browser land and dispatch a paste event in a page.evaluate(...) 🤷

Oh @mookiept cool idea 😁

Happy to see I brought another approach to the mix rather than reheat something already discussed 😅

I think this issue is relevant https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/15860

Would I be correct in assuming that browser access to the clipboard is risky from a security point of view?

Security would be a stretch, but Privacy, yes! The clipboard is normally behind user permissions, because it is usually a global API and can give access to things copied from external apps or other pages.

Any updates

@kentcdodds in testing pasting, is that actually testing the browser itself rather than the website? Unless the web page specifically intercepts paste events, there should be no need to test pasting (test your web page, not the browser 🙂 )

Unless the web page specifically intercepts paste events This is what I was trying to test, yes.