ChromeDriver: WebElement.send_keys() ignores left curly bracket ({)

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- ChromeDriver 26.0.1383
- Selenium standalone 2.35
- Firefox 21
- Chrome 30.0.1599.101m
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Using the Python API with the following logic, assuming "browser" is my 
WebDriver object:

my_input = browser.find_element_by_xpath("\\somexpath")
my_input.send_keys("aaa{{aaa")

In the browser, Selenium types "aaaaaa" with Chrome. With Firefox, the output 
is correct.

If I do this:

my_input.send_keys("aaa{{aaa}}}")

In the browser, Selenium types "aaaaaa}}}", with Chrome. Everything is still OK 
with Firefox.

The obvious conclusion is that there is a bug with ChromeDriver.

I am unable to test with older versions of ChromeDriver at this time, but I 
know that switching back to Selenium 2.33 did not help.

FYI, the context of this is an app configuration window where we basically dump 
settings in JSON format in a textarea.

Can anyone reproduce this bug?

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by asca...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2013 at 2:28

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I had not seen that there was a Selenium 2.36.

I've updated my server and I still have the issue.

Original comment by asca...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2013 at 2:39

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Since it is apparent it's a problem with ChromeDriver, you will get more luck 
posting over there:

http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/

Original comment by arran.hu...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2013 at 2:47

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Oh right. I'm always struggling with who does what and where is what (third 
base?) when it comes to Selenium and its drivers.

Sorry about polluting here.

Original comment by asca...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2013 at 2:53

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Original comment by samu...@chromium.org on 21 Feb 2015 at 12:18

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I am not to reproduce the issue. Please find the below code:-

import time
from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://www.google.fr')

elem = browser.find_element_by_name('q')
elem.send_keys("aaa{{aaa")
time.sleep(3)
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("aaa{{aaa}}}")

time.sleep(5)
browser.quit()

Configuration:- Windows 8.1, Python 2.7 , selenium webdriver 2.45 , 
chromedriver 2.14 , chromebrowser-41.0.2272.76 (64-bit)

Can you please try with the latest versions and let us know if you still see 
the issue?

Original comment by gmanikp...@chromium.org on 23 Mar 2015 at 9:41

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Original comment by gmanikp...@chromium.org on 31 Mar 2015 at 9:46

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