WebView TypeText not working

[alexandravychytill]

What happened?

When running on iOS type text functions is not working, even though on android it works.

Log:
Test Failed: Failed to evaluate JavaScript on web view: <RNCWKWebView: 0x1078ba000; frame = (0 0; 393 713.333); gestureRecognizers = <NSArray: 0x600000ce33f0>; backgroundColor = UIExtendedSRGBColorSpace 1 1 1 1; layer = <CALayer: 0x6000005577c0>>. JS exception: The input element's type ('email') does not support selection.

Code:
await web.element(by.web.id('identifier')).typeText('Hello World!');

What was the expected behaviour?

TypeText should work

Was it tested on latest Detox?

• I have tested this issue on the latest Detox release and it still reproduces.

Did your test throw out a timeout?

• I have followed the instructions under Identifying which synchronization mechanism causes us to wait too much.

Help us reproduce this issue!

No response

In what environment did this happen?

Detox version: 20.19.4
React Native version: 0.72.0
Has Fabric (React Native's new rendering system) enabled: yes
Node version: >=16
Device model: iPhone 15
iOS version: 17.2
macOS version: 14.4
Xcode version: 15.2
Test-runner (select one): jest

Detox logs

Detox logs

Test Failed: Failed to evaluate JavaScript on web view: <RNCWKWebView: 0x1078ba000; frame = (0 0; 393 713.333); gestureRecognizers = <NSArray: 0x600000ce33f0>; backgroundColor = UIExtendedSRGBColorSpace 1 1 1 1; layer = <CALayer: 0x6000005577c0>>. JS exception: The input element's type ('email') does not support selection.

Device logs

Device logs

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More data, please!

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[asafkorem]

I'm able to reproduce this @alexandravychytill. Investigating

[asafkorem]

Related: https://w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24796
Working on a workaround 🙂

[asafkorem]

Hey @alexandravychytill, a fix for this issue was released with the latest Detox version (20.19.5).

[swain]

@asafkorem I'm still seeing this issue on Detox 20.20.3. The field focuses, but the text does not get typed.

[aliub145]

@asafkorem I am still hitting this issue too, same as @swain - the field focuses but the text does not get typed. I will open up a new issue to track this

[asafkorem]

Thanks for the report @aliub145 @swain , I'll check the new issue soon. For now, if you could create some reproduction project / snippets for me it will be very helpful and might shorten the time for you to wait for the investigation 🙂

[pang0018]

Thanks for the report @aliub145 @swain , I'll check the new issue soon. For now, if you could create some reproduction project / snippets for me it will be very helpful and might shorten the time for you to wait for the investigation 🙂

@asafkorem I made a reproduction project for iOS. I removed the node_modules and ios/Pods folder to make it smaller. Make sure you you disable new architecture with RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED=0 pod install

detoxWebTester.zip

Not the web view library is 13.6.4. It's not the latest and we are restricted to that version since we are still on expo 50 in our app.