WebUI.setText not working

Web Testing
5

Oh!

The following is the source code of “WebUI.setText” keyword:

At Line#53, it explicitly calls WebElement.clear() method.

...
                WebElement webElement = WebUIAbstractKeyword.findWebElement(to)
                logger.logDebug(MessageFormat.format(StringConstants.KW_LOG_INFO_CLEARING_OBJ_TXT, to.getObjectId()))
                webElement.clear()
...

This code calls WebElement.clear() to clear, as documented, the previous values. But unfortunately, for some reason, it does not work. All I want to say here is that Katalon Studio is not really causing the problem. The cause lies in the WebDriver & browser layer.

You should have a wider scope of search for workaround. Even in this Katalon User forum, you can find several posts related to “WebUI.setText”. For example: