# How-to use ‘sendKeys’ or 'File Upload' to upload files

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**Category:** Web Testing\
**Tags:** tips-tricks, katalon-studio\
**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/how-to-use-sendkeys-or-file-upload-to-upload-files/54758 "2021-05-13T19:09:11Z")\
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The following ‘File Upload Sample’ test case uses sendKeys to upload a test **Blank.png** image file.  
Copy the following to any test case and run, (test objects are created in memory so no objects are needed).

```auto
import org.openqa.selenium.By as By
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver as WebDriver
import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObject as TestObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory as DriverFactory
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI
import java.nio.file.Path as Path
import java.nio.file.Paths as Paths

WebUI.openBrowser('')

//Loads File Upload Sample page
WebUI.navigateToUrl('https://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/wcscripts/fileupload.wwd')

//Loads WebDriver
WebDriver driver = DriverFactory.getWebDriver()

/ **Change 'Blank.png' to any test image file being used** /
'Sets path to the test Blank.png Uploadfile'
Path uploadFilePath = Paths.get(System.getProperty('user.home'), 'Downloads', 'Blank.png')
String upLoadFile = uploadFilePath
println('upLoadFile: ' + upLoadFile)

'Finds "Select Images" Link using by.xpath & creates object'
def selectImagesLinkXpath = '//*[@type = "file"]'
TestObject selectImagesLink = WebUI.convertWebElementToTestObject(driver.findElement(By.xpath(selectImagesLinkXpath)))
WebUI.sendKeys(selectImagesLink, upLoadFile)

'Waits for file to load'
WebUI.delay(3)

'Finds "Upload" button using by.xpath & creates object'
def uploadBtnXpath = "//button[@type='submit'][contains(.,'Upload...')]"
TestObject uploadBtn = WebUI.convertWebElementToTestObject(driver.findElement(By.xpath(uploadBtnXpath)))
WebUI.click(uploadBtn)

```

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