Cannot send characters directly to the browser

[LewisW]

The documentation implies that you can send keys directly to the browser, but the code expects an element name to be provided.

The result is an error like the following:
TypeError: BaseWebDriver.type() missing 1 required positional argument: 'value'

Is this something that's still supported?

[nameloCmaS]

From what I understand, the way to do this is as below.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from splinter import Browser
from splinter.driver import webdriver

browser = Browser("firefox")
browser.visit("https://github.com")
driver = browser.driver
actions = webdriver.ActionChains(driver)
# Queue for effect only. The first / brings up the search bar,
# the others type the search query in the search bar, followed by
# Enter to submit the form.
send_keys = ["/", "cobrateam", "/", "splinter", Keys.ENTER]
for send in send_keys:
    actions.send_keys(send)

actions.perform()

The function (implementation for web drivers) could be edited to run this code if no name argument is provided. But the function signature would not allow a default to just be set for name without value also having a default. Changing this would be a breaking change and affect some implementations.

More info from Stack Overflow.

Thus I agree, the documentation is misleading re this.

[LewisW]

Awesome, thanks for clarifying.