{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805/events","html_url":"https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805","id":95636153,"number":805,"title":"sendKeys in InternetExplorerDriver doesn't always send keys","user":{"login":"outofrange","id":4445747,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4445747?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange","html_url":"https://github.com/outofrange","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/outofrange/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/labels/D-IE","name":"D-IE","color":"0052cc"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-07-17T11:02:07Z","updated_at":"2016-04-18T16:53:00Z","closed_at":null,"body":"We stumbled over the seldom occuring issue that InternetExplorerDriver won't enter some text into text fields, leaving them blank.\r\n\r\nTo reproduce and isolate the problem, I've created [a small Selenium/Java script](https://gist.github.com/outofrange/d92be829255120134bd2) that simply enters increasing numbers into a text field and asserts the value of the HTML tag, for 30 minutes.\r\nAfter a few seconds or minutes, the text field stays empty and the assertion fails; my expectation is, of course, that `sendKeys` will send keys on every invocation, or at least throws an exception if there is a problem.\r\nMost of the time, we are able to reproduce the problem with this method before we reach 300 - the longest we had to wait was until 839.\r\n\r\nIn this case, I'm reading the `value` of the input field immediately after calling sendKeys, but even when looking at the browser after the assertion, the characters won't appear, so I don't believe it's a timing issue.\r\n\r\nBoth Selenium and IEDriver are at version 2.45.0, and we could reproduce it on a machine with Win7 + IE8, and on another one with Win7 + IE11, although it's rarer on IE11 (meaning it takes longer until it happens)\r\nWindows is 64bit, IE and IEDriver are 32bit.\r\nWe are using Java 1.8.0_51 (x64)\r\n\r\nIt seems that `requireWindowFocus` = true is relevant.\r\n\r\nSince I haven't found anything about this problem on the internet, are we the only ones having these troubles?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/comments/211471276","html_url":"https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805#issuecomment-211471276","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/805","id":211471276,"user":{"login":"ckorakidis","id":1248448,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1248448?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis","html_url":"https://github.com/ckorakidis","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ckorakidis/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-18T16:53:00Z","updated_at":"2016-04-18T16:53:00Z","body":"I'm experiencing the same issue with java version v. 2.53.0 on IE.\r\nIn some cases the field will be left empty, in some other cases not all the characters will be written in the field.\r\nI didn't ever have this issue while debugging.\r\nIt looks like it's going to fast through these steps as it was mentioned also in this [comment](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=435#c25)"}}