title: Webdriver returns error for textarea.sendKeys(text)
body: <p>I am using Webdriver 2.25.0 and Firefox 14</p>
  
  <p>I have the following textarea:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea id="source-text" placeholder="Start typing your text" style="resize: none; overflow: hidden;"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am identifying this text area in my HomePage object like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@FindBy(how = How.CSS, using = "div.myclass textarea")
  public WebElement columnLeftTextarea;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What i want to do is simply type some text inside this textarea, by using the following code</p>
  
  <pre><code>homePage.columnLeftTextarea.sendKeys("some text");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is returning the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Type mismatch Can't assign non-array value to an array
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The textarea is correctly defined as when i run</p>
  
  <pre><code> homePage.columnLeftTextarea.getAttribute("placeholder")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get the correct text</p>
  
  <p>I even tried to do start the browser by setting the capabilities to tnable native events:</p>
  
  <pre><code>FirefoxProfile ffProfile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(generalPropertiesTestObject.getFirefox_profile_template_location()));
          ffProfile.setEnableNativeEvents(true);
          FirefoxDriver ffd = new FirefoxDriver(ffProfile);
          capabilities = ffd.getCapabilities();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But still i am getting the same error. Does anyone have any idea about it?</p>