How does one clear a text input? Pressing backspace a lot feels dirty.

[ozymandias547]

How does one clear a text input? Pressing backspace a lot feels dirty.

On the flipside, injecting some javascript and clearing that way is causing some weird issues.

Could we have a setValue or clear API method for inputs?

[forclan]

You can run you own code in evaluate function like this:

const {Chromeless} = require('chromeless');

async function run() {
    // use local chrome
    const chromeless = new Chromeless({remote: false});

    const links = await chromeless
        .goto('https://www.google.com')
        .type('chromeless', 'input[name="q"]')
        .press(13)
        .wait('#resultStats')
        .evaluate(() => {
            function clearInputDomValue(queryStr) {
                const dom = document.querySelector(queryStr);
                if (dom) {
                    dom.value = '';
                    return 'success';
                } else {
                    console.error('failed, query is', queryStr);
                    return 'failure';
                }
            }
            clearResult('#sbhost');
        })
        .scrollTo(0, 1000);

    // do not close chrome after execution, so that if you do not start
    // chrome in 'headless' mode, you can see the result in chrome
    // await chromeless.end();
}

run().catch(console.error.bind(console));

[adieuadieu]

Closing as #151 was merged. Will be released in v1.2.