How to simplify multiple interactions with a textbox

Sometimes, you need to do multiple actions in a textbox as follows:

WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(textBoxId);

textbox.clear();

textbox.sendKeys("Java"); 

textbox.sendKeys(Keys.ENTER); 
textbox.sendKeys(Keys.TAB); 

This code finds the text box, clears the existing value, types a new value, presses ENTER, presses TAB.

5 lines of code.

Is it possible to simplify it?

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First, create a class constant:

private static final String DELETE_KEY = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,
                                                    "A",
                                                    Keys.DELETE);

Then, use a single sendKeys() command for all actions:

WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(textBoxId);

textbox.sendKeys(DELETE_KEY, "Java", Keys.ENTER, Keys.TAB); 

Why does this work?

Because the parameter of sendKeys() has as type CharSequence... which means that it can get a variable number of parameters that have the CharSequence type:

void sendKeys(CharSequence... keysToSend); 

CharSequence… is basically an array of Strings with a dynamic size.

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The code can be simplified further .

First add a static import for the Keys enumeration:

import static org.openqa.selenium.Keys.*;

This allows use to remove the Keys enum name from the code:

WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(textBoxId);
element.sendKeys(DELETE_KEY, "Java", ENTER, TAB); 

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Thanks for reading.