Unable to click textarea - java

I'm working on a project that's coded in Java and I'm using Selenium to automate a process.
I have these two textareas and I've no problem at all to send my text to the first area because I can find it by id.
<td class="tdLeft">:</td>
<td class="tdRight">
<textarea placeholder="" id="add_links" name="links[]"></textarea>
</td>
driver.findElementById("add_links").sendKeys("\n");
But there is a second text area that I have problems with.
<tr>
<td class="tdLeft">:</td>
<td class="tdRight">
<textarea name="links[]"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
How can I get my text into this one ?

Long way would be:
List<WebElement> txtAreas = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//textarea[name='links[]']"));
for (WebElement txtArea : txtAreas) {
if (!txtArea.getAttribute("id").equalsIgnoreCase("add_links")) {
txtArea.sendKeys("\n");
break;
}
}
Simplest way would be:
WebElement txtArea = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[name='links[]' and not(#id = 'add_links')]"));
txtArea.sendKeys("\n");

If you know textarea index you can try following way,
driver.findElementsByXPath("//textarea").get(1).sendKeys("\n");

You have 2 textareas with same values for name attribute. what you can do for second text area is as below:
List<WebElement> linksize=null;
String arraylinks[]=null;
linksize = driver.findElements(By.name("links[]"));
int linksCount = linksize.size();
arraylinks= new String[linksCount];
for(int i=0;i<linksCount;i++)
{
arraylinks[i] = linksize.get(i).getAttribute("id");
if(arraylinks[i].isEmpty())
{
System.out.println("I am second text area"+arraylinks[i]);
linksize.get(i).sendKeys("Hello");
}
}
Here we are getting text area having common attributes, looping over them and sending text only to that one which do not have id. It is working for me. Give it a try.

Try this xpath,driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr/td[2]/textarea[#]"))

You can try by using cssSelectors:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("textarea[name='links[]']"));

I found doubleclick and then sendkey as solution :D
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(findElement(locator)).doubleClick().build().perform();
locator.sendKeys("Text");

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What you can try is to navigate back to the immediate parent table-row (tr) containing table-data(td). Then searching for the input 'checkbox' there.
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<tr>
<td>
<center><input type='checkbox'/></center>
</td>
<td>
<span>Cell Desc</span>
</td>
<td>
<hyperlink>
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</tr>
</table>
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//*[#text='Cell Desc']/ancestor::tr//input
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This worked for me please try the below code:
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{
if (td.getText().contains("Your Text")
td.click;
}
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{
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I need to get the download link in this table:
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*/
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This will help you out.
try{
ArrayList<WebElement> cells = (ArrayList<WebElement>) driver.findElements(By.tagName("td"));
log4j.info("Value = "+input_type+" is stored in array from Webpage for "+keyword+" ");
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{
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}
}
return true;
}catch(Throwable e){
return false;
}
You need to use Array list like this and you can compare your Name in which you wanna fill value Or wanna do any operation like getText(), click() etc.
Enjoy!

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I have been trying to get the anchor link via WebDriver but somehow, things aren't working as desired and I am not getting the element.
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or
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or
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