how to delete default values in text field using selenium?

And was the code helpful? Because the code you are writing should do the thing:

driver.findElement("locator").clear();

If it does not help, then try this:

WebElement toClear = driver.findElement("locator");
toClear.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "a");
toClear.sendKeys(Keys.DELETE);

maybe you will have to do some convert of the Keys.CONTROL + "a" to CharSequence, but the first approach should do the magic

For page object model -

 @FindBy(xpath="//foo")
   public WebElement textBox;

now in your function

 public void clearExistingText(String newText){
    textBox.clear();
    textBox.sendKeys(newText);
  }

for general selenium architecture -

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//yourxpath")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//yourxpath")).sendKeys("newText");

You can use the code below. It selects the pre-existing value in the field and overwrites it with the new value.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("*enter your xpath here*")).sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a"),*enter the new value here*);

driver.findElement(locator).clear() - This command will work in all cases

clear() didn't work for me. But this did:

input.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.chord("a")); //select all text in textbox
input.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE); //delete it
input.sendKeys("new text"); //enter new text

The following function will delete the input character one by one till the input field is empty using PromiseWhile

driver.clearKeys = function(element, value){
  return element.getAttribute('value').then(function(val) {
    if (val.length > 0) {
      return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
        var len;
        len = val.length;
        return promiseWhile(function() { 
          return 0 < len;
        }, function() {
          return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
            len--;
            return element.sendKeys(webdriver.Key.BACK_SPACE).then(function()              {
              return resolve(true);
            });
          });
        }).then(function() {
          return resolve(true);
        });
      });
    }

This worked for me:

driver.findElement(yourElement).clear();
driver.findElement(yourelement).sendKeys("");

.clear() can be used to clear the text

  (locator).clear();

using clear with the locator deletes all the value in that exact locator.

In software testing services this can be achieved by many ways some of the options are displayed above remaining are as follow.

• Using java script

driver.executeScript("document.getElementByXpath('element').setAttribute('value', 'abc')");

Using action class Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

actions.click(driver.findElement(element) .keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("a").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE).build().perform());

actions = ActionChains(driver)
ak = driver.find_element_by_id('blogname')
actions.move_to_element(ak)
actions.click()
actions.key_down(Keys.CONTROL).send_keys('a').key_down(Keys.DELETE)
actions.perform()