Selenium WebDriver typing speed is slow in input text field

Question

I am executing a test script on IE 11 browser with Selenium 2.4.1, where the script allows to enter text in a text field using the following:

element.sendKeys("text");

I noticed that one character of the string is typed in the text field and it waits for 1-2 seconds before typing the next character. I want to understand that "Why is typing so slow with IE?" and "Is there any alternate way to speed this up?"

Answer 1

It worked for me in the 64bit version of IEDriverServer. 

I just added the property requireWindowFocus with the value "true" 

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
...
capabilities.setCapability("requireWindowFocus", true);
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);

Comments

I had the same problem and your solution works beautifully.

Thank you!

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Great. Working fine now. Thanks

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Great... This works for me... Thank you...

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Hi Pavan, glad the solution worked fine for you.