Enter Text
This action enters a text in a found tag, which must be either a text field, a text area, a password field, a file field, a hidden field, or a tag whose content is editable.
To enter a fixed password in a password field, consider using the Enter Password action instead in order to prevent the password from being visible to the user in Design Studio and in saved robot files.
Note that entering the text may trigger execution of JavaScript if there are any registered event handlers on the field or tag.
Properties
The Enter Text action can be configured using the following properties:
- Text to Enter
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Specify the text to enter. The value can be specified in several ways using the Value Selector.
- Obtain focus by
- On some websites it is necessary to set focus on the input field before entering text. Use the Obtain focus by option to set focus on the input field.
- Select all text before typing
- Sometimes it might be necessary to select the existing text in a field to ensure that it is overwritten when entering new text. Use the Select all text before typing option to select the existing text in a field.
- Continue when
- Add a wait criterion for the step. If you have several wait criteria, execution stops when any wait criterion is met. You can have several met wait criteria such as if you are waiting for two HTML elements that appear on the same load, or if you are waiting for an element on the main frame, and Initial Page Load Completes is set. For more information, see Use Wait Criteria.
- Options
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The robot's options can be overridden with the step's own options. An option that is marked with an asterisk in the Options Dialog will override the one from the robot's configuration. All other options will be the same as specified for the robot.