Press Enter Key in Selenium RC with C#

Question

How to press Enter using Selenium RC using C#?

I am working with a SearchBox using Selenium. In which I have to type some name and I have to press Enter to search.

There is no Submit button. So, I must use Enter.

I tried something like this

selenium.KeyPress("quicksearchtextcriteria", "13");

But doesn't work.

Please Help.

Note: I made a collection of possible ways to do this. See here: press enter key in selenium

Solution 1

This can be achieved by Keys, and Enter.

Example in Java as I don't know C#:

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

//...

// this sends an Enter to the element
selenium.type("locator", Keys.ENTER);

// or even this - this sends the "Any text" and then confirms it with Enter
selenium.type("locator", "Any text" + Keys.ENTER);

From the Keys enum.

Solution 2

Try this:

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys

WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN)

References:

Typing Enter/Return key in Selenium

http://asynchrony.blogspot.com/2008/11/enter-key-press-in-selenium.html

Hope this helps.

Solution 3

This is how it done with C#:

webElement.SendKeys(Keys.Return);

Solution 4

I believe you can also use the 'Submit' method. (Though I use Selenium 2, so I'm guessing perhaps this is not possible in Selenium RC? Sorry if so).

//First you need to find the searchBox and fill it, once doing so call
searchBox.Submit();

Solution 5

Try this:

selenium.KeyPressNative("13");

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Comments

[Ranadheer Reddy]

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys; itself giving error. i am working with Visual studio. c#

[Ranadheer Reddy]

Here what is mean by locator of element? is dat mean xpath of my textBox ?

[Rohit Ware]

Yes, just put xpath of text-box

[Ranadheer Reddy]

Hmm. I tried.But not working. No error. But Enter is not working

[Ranadheer Reddy]

When i debug it, it is saying Expression was evaluated but has no Value.

[Petr Janeček]

Oh, sorry, my bad. That was Java, I didn't recognize C# from the snippet. Isn't there an alternative in C#? Maybe not, I don't know.

[Rohit Ware]

quicksearchtextcriteria is ID of field???If yes then try to use locator as ID=quicksearchtextcriteria...I think that was xpath error message

[Nashibukasan]

Or: searchBox.SendKeys("Text to search" + OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Enter);

[user85]

The link for c# alternative isn't working. Is there a c# alternative to this - {code} selenium.type("locator", "Any text" + Keys.ENTER); {code}

[Su Llewellyn]

The error message for the bad links is: The requested URL /svn/trunk/docs/api/dotnet/html/T_OpenQA_Selenium_Keys.htm was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

[Su Llewellyn]

When I try this, I get the following error in Visual Studio 2017: "Argument 1 cannot convert from 'System.Windows.Forms.Keys' to 'string' - the API SendKeys requires a string.

[Petr Janeček]

I fixed the links. Note that this answer is 6 years old now, and Selenium RC is looong gone. Go for WebDriver!