Chrome cannot focus on div for sending keys

[bcherny]

I have a <div> that I am trying to send a backspace key to.

// crashes Chrome
$('#myDiv').sendKeys(protractor.Key.BACK_SPACE)

// crashes Chrome
$('#myDiv').click().sendKeys(protractor.Key.BACK_SPACE)

// works!
browser.actions().sendKeys(protractor.Key.BACK_SPACE).perform()

Related to:

• Cannot use Arrow keys to select option in a drop down #1622
• clear() or sendKeys('') not working on input types: date, time, datetime-local, month, or week #562
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21991003/cannot-focus-web-element-to-send-keys

[sjelin]

Not sure what's wrong with the first one. What error message are you getting?

$('#myDiv').click().sendKeys(protractor.Key.BACK_SPACE) is wrong. You can't chain those commands together like that.

[juliemr]

@sjelin You should be able to chain commands, the commands seem fine.

When executing the first and second commands, the error is cannot focus element. The third command works because it isn't sending the keypress to a specific element, just to the browser.

This looks like a recurring issue with chromedriver. See code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=870, and https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=35, and https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=999

[juliemr]

External bugs are closed, so I'm going to close this issue as well - please open up an issue with ChromeDriver if you are still seeing this with the latest version.