sendKeys(ENTER) in IE 11

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Hey guys, I’m having the following problem:
I have a test where I enter a term into a searchbar, press Enter and the results should be shown.
The test works in all browsers except the IE11. There I see in the log, that the sending of the key was successful but I still see the searchbar in the browser like the key would not have been hit. If I hit it manually the test continues and completes.
Any ideas what might cause the problem?

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Hi Simon

Does the search bar look as though it has focus? Is the cursor flashing?

Why not show us the line of code that seems to be failing?

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Hey Russ,

thanks a lot for the answer!
Yes the search bar has focus, the cursor is flashing.
I can just press Enter on my keyboard manually and everything runs.
There is not really a loc failing. Everything passes like you see:

04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [START]  - Start action : setText
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Finding Test Object with id 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar'
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Checking object
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Checking text
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Checking timeout
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Finding web element with id: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class = 'jss160']' in '30' second(s)
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Found 1 web elements with id: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class = 'jss160']' in '30' second(s)
04-12-2018 08:51:23 AM - [INFO]   - Clearing text of object 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar'
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Checking timeout
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Finding web element with id: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class = 'jss160']' in '30' second(s)
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Found 1 web elements with id: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class = 'jss160']' in '30' second(s)
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Setting text of object 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' to value 'marvin'
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [PASSED] - Text 'marvin' is set on object 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar'
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [END]    - End action : setText
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [START]  - Start action : sendKeys
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Finding Test Object with id 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar'
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Sending keys 'ENTER + ' to object: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar'
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Checking timeout
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Finding web element with id: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class = 'jss160']' in '30' second(s)
04-12-2018 08:51:24 AM - [INFO]   - Found 1 web elements with id: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class = 'jss160']' in '30' second(s)
04-12-2018 08:51:25 AM - [PASSED] - Keys 'ENTER + ' sent to object: 'Object Repository/Simon/Page_1/searchbar'
04-12-2018 08:51:25 AM - [END]    - End action : sendKeys

But in the browser still the search bar is shown and not the result page.

Any idea?

Br, Simon

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Nope. Sorry.

Looks like IE is behaving badly. Imagine that.

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Simon

Please try with WIN 10 IE it is same as running on FireFox. I am not sure why the issue with WIN 7 IE. But I have executed the same script on WIN 10 IE, It is working fine as expected.