typeText not working for web view text input

[aliub145]

What happened?

Trying to call typeText on a web view text input it not working. The field focuses but no text gets entered. There are no errors logged in the terminal (i.e. the test proceeds, but fails at the next step because the fields were not successfully entered)

What was the expected behaviour?

Calling typeText on a web view element should enter text successfully into the text field

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!

Code snippet from test:

usernameInput: web.element(by.web.id('username'))
await loginPage.usernameInput.typeText('testUsername')

In what environment did this happen?

Detox version: v20.27.6
React Native version: v0.73.4
Has Fabric (React Native's new rendering system) enabled: (yes/no)
Node version: v18.17.1
Device model: iPhone 15
iOS version: 17.5
macOS version: Sonoma 14.7
Xcode version: v16.1
Test-runner (select one): jest / other

Detox logs

no errors in logs

Device logs

no errors in logs

More data, please!

No response

[aliub145]

Related to this closed issue: #4426. Opened this issue because I am still hitting this issue on the latest version of Detox

[pang0018]

I provided a reproducible example in issue in #4426

[pang0018]

@asafkorem can you take a look please?