I wrote an entry previously about manipulating a GWT RichTextArea widget via Selenium. Recently I’ve been investigating moving to Selenium 2, also known as Selenium WebDriver.

As with Selenium 1 the mechanism for manipulating a RichTextArea widget in Selenium 2:

1. Select the iframe that the RichTextArea resides in
2. Type the required text into the body of the iframe
3. Select the top level frame

Assuming a RichTextArea with an ID of “gwt-debug-text-editor” the following Java code fragment gives a concrete example of doing this

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
...
private final WebDriver webDriver;
...
public void typeIntoRichTextArea()
{
    final WebDriver frame = webDriver.switchTo().frame("gwt-debug-text-editor");
    final WebElement editorBody = frame.findElement(By.xpath("//*"));
    editorBody.sendKeys("This is some example text to type into the text area");
    webDriver.switchTo().defaultContent();
}

you should now see text in your rich text editor!

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