Java lang CharSequence cannot be resolved error while using sendKeys using Selenium Webdriver

Question

I have imported the below packages but its throwing an error when using sendKeys();

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.*;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

The code is as below.

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.*;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

public class DemoCode {

    public static void main(String[] args)
      {

        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        String baseUrl = "http://www.facebook.com";

        String tagName="";
        driver.get(baseUrl);
        tagName = driver.findElement(By.id("email")).getTagName();
        System.out.println("TagName: "+tagName);   
        WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.id("username"));
        myElement.sendKeys("text");
      }
}

But I m receiving an error given below

The type java.lang.CharSequence cannot be resolved.

Can anyonehelp me in this.

Answer 1

You could try this,

myElement .sendKeys(new String[] { "text" });
or
myElement .sendKeys(new String { "text" });