Selenium and TinyMCE

There is a bit problem using selenium to type in textarea formatted by tinymce. We can’t use

page.FindElement(By.XPath("//textarea[@name='textareaName']")).SendKeys(content);

because tinymce uses html inside iframe instead of textarea to perform wysiwyg editing.

To make selenium type in tinymce iframe, write this in test code (this example using c#.net)

driver.SwitchTo().Frame(iframeLocator);
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//body[@id='tinymce']")).<br>SendKeys(sValue);
driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();

where

driver = IWebDriver
iframeLocator = name of iFrame
sValue = desired content of textarea

Tinymce set the name of iframe as textareaid_ifr.
If textarea ID is content, iframe name would be content_ifr