Select all text currently in a textbox and overwrite it

Question

I need to be able to select all text currently in a textbox and overwrite it. Manually, I would click on the box, press CTRL-A and then type my new text. I don't seem to be able to do that with Kantu - the instruction it creates just types 'A'. How would I go about doing this?

I am using the Kantu Community Edition for an automation project.

Answer 1

You can achieve this with the Javascript command. 

It allows you to execute Javascript in the content of the loaded website (content script).

So if you, for example, want to overwrite a phone number in an input box, just set it to a new value via the DOM (and thus erase any existing content). Example:

var b = document.getElementById('phone'); b.value="+1-305-123456";