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tall0763posted in #help-playwright
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tall0763

HI , what is the best way to paste text in textbox n playrwright? any example?

This thread is trying to answer question "What is the best way to paste text in a textbox using Playwright?"

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stackfish
stackfish

you can use fill() or type() on a locator

tall0763

fill doesnt work for me

stackfish
stackfish

which exception it throws?

tall0763

waiting for getByTestId('free-text') locator resolved to <div data-testid="free-text" class="MuiFormControl-ro…>…</div> elementHandle.fill("free-text") waiting for element to be visible, enabled and editable Element is not an <input>, <textarea> or [contenteditable] element

stackfish
stackfish

can you try with type() once?

tall0763

thank you!

tall0763

it helped!

tall0763

there is away to paste in one time without waiting for the long text to be wrriten?

stackfish
stackfish
@tall0763: yup. that is the fill() you are talking about!

yup. that is the fill() you are talking about!

tall0763

cool this is also work now.

stackfish
stackfish

@tall0763 how did you get it working??

tall0763

i change the element to be in input and not div

stackfish
stackfish

Great! Thanks for sharing

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