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Browser Actions › Actions › Set Form Field Value

Sets a form field to a new value.

Parameters

Section titled “Parameters”

Browser

Section titled “Browser”

The browser to work with.

Selecting "frontmost browser" will only work if the application currently in the foreground is a supported browser.

Only available if Target tab isn’t set to "specific tab".

Type: Browser

Target tab

Section titled “Target tab”

Specify which tab you want to work with. The option "active tab of frontmost window" will target the currently active tab at the time this action is executed, while "specific tab" will let you target an existing browser tab.

Options:

  • active tab of frontmost window
  • specific tab

Specific browser tab

Section titled “Specific browser tab”

If Target tab is set to "specific tab", this parameter expects a browser tab reference.

Type: Browser Tab

Match form field

Section titled “Match form field”

Select how the form field should be looked up, either by the field's name or id attribute, or by a CSS selector (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSS_Selector for more info).

Options:

  • with name attribute of
  • with id attribute of
  • identified by CSS selector

Form field

Section titled “Form field”

The form field descriptor, i.e. either the field's name or id attribute, or a CSS selector, depending on what's selected in Match form field.

Type: Text

Value

Section titled “Value”

For a text or number field, the value will be inserted as is. For radio buttons, the radio with the specified value is selected. For a checkbox, a value of '1', 'checked', 'enabled', 'on', 'true' or 'yes' will enable it, anything else will disable it. ('checked' is the canonical value, the rest exist for your convenience.)

Type: Text

Trigger field's change event

Section titled “Trigger field's change event”

Fires the HTMLElement's change event on each field after changing it. (See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/change_event for more info.)

Type: Boolean (YES/NO)

Submit parent form

Section titled “Submit parent form”

Fires the HTMLElement submit event on the last field's parent form. (See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement/submit_event for more info.)

Prerequisites: The field could be found and set, and the parent <form> element exists.

Type: Boolean (YES/NO)

Pause when done

Section titled “Pause when done”

Add a pause before proceeding to the next action in the workflow.

Options:

  • no pause
  • 0.5 secs
  • 1.0 secs
  • 1.5 secs
  • 2.0 secs
  • 2.5 secs
  • 3.0 secs
  • 3.5 secs
  • 4.0 secs

Return Value

Section titled “Return Value”

Boolean (YES/NO)

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