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Clearing a Text Field and Focusing On a Control

Explore techniques to clear text fields to avoid concatenation and focus on controls to handle visibility issues in Selenium WebDriver tests. Understand how to assert field values and use JavaScript for focusing on elements, improving test reliability on complex web pages.

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Clear a text field

Clearing out a text field is important, as calling out the sendKeys() function to an already filled text field will only concatenate the new text with the old. So, it is advisable to clear a text field before sending new keys to it.

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