JavascriptExecutor within Selenium script throws “org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptException: javascript error”

Question

I am trying to pass value to a calendar field using JavascriptExecutor in my Selenium code.

The method declaration is as follows:

public static void selectDepDate(WebDriver driver, String value) { js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; js.executeScript("arguments[0].removeAttribute('readonly', 0)", deptDate); js.executeScript("arguments[0].value=''", deptDate); js.executeScript("arguments[0].value='" + value + "')", deptDate); } 

I am calling the method via selectDepDate(driver, "15-Sep-2020").

Upon execution of the script, I am seeing the following exception in the console logs:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptException: javascript error: Unexpected token ')' 

Answer 1

Since you already have a reference to your webElement, You can use setAttribute with below approach to set the value.

 driver.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute(arguments[1], arguments[2]);", deptDate, attributeName, value); 

Here attributeName is the name of attribute to which you want to set date inside deptDate webElement.