How to press Ctrl+V in Selenium WebDriver

keypress, selenium, selenium-webdriver

Solution

Here's what I would suggest:

IWebDriver webDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
webDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl(@"C:\Users\us\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\SeleniumTests\SeleniumTests\test.html");
var el = webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//*[@id='fld']"));
el.Click();
el.SendKeys(Keys.CONTROL+ "v");

webDriver.Quit();

Problem

In one of my automated tests I need to press Ctrl+V in text box to paste text in it. But I can't do that. I'm using Selenium WebDriver for .net v. 2.35.0.0. Here is my code, it does not work. It presses Ctrl and then V, but text not gets pasted in the box: ``` IWebDriver webDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(); webDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl(@"C:\Users\us\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\SeleniumTests\SeleniumTests\test.html"); var el = webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//*[@id='fld']")); el.Click(); Actions builder = new Actions(webDriver); builder.KeyDown(el, Keys.LeftControl).Perform(); builder.SendKeys(el, "v").Perform(); builder.KeyUp(el, Keys.LeftControl).Perform(); webDriver.Quit(); ``` Update: OS: Windows Server 2012, x64 Browser: IE10

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