Cmd+A doesn't select all on Mac

[JoelEinbinder]

There are two types of shortcuts: those handled by OS and those handled by Chrome

• Alt-Tab is an example of a native shortcut
• Shift-Left is an example of Chrome-handled shortcut

Puppeteer doesn't emulate native shortcuts because native shortcuts depend on the active window, which is out of control for puppeteer.

Certain shortcuts, such as "select all", are handled differently on different platforms:

• On Win and Linux, Ctrl-A is handled by Chrome, and puppeteer does emulate this
• On OS X, ⌘-A is handled by OS X, and puppeteer doesn't emulate this

[drorbiran]

I'm also having an issue with simulating a paste from clipboard.
tried

 await this.page.keyboard.down('ControlLeft');
 await this.page.keyboard.down('V');

 await this.page.keyboard.up('V');
  await this.page.keyboard.up('ControlLeft');

[dragoroff]

You can solve your problem by clicking 3 times in a row and then deleting your text.
await input.click({ clickCount: 3 }); await page.keyboard.press("Backspace");

[aadityataparia]

I'm also having an issue with simulating command click:

 await page.keyboard.down('Meta');
 await page.click('a');
 await page.keyboard.up('Meta');

It doesn't open a new tab.

[swissspidy]

Why exactly is this issue closed? 🤔

[voshond]

Yes, I'm wondering too.

Unfortunately in some special cases the triple click does not select all the text, in my case the website has some weird handler where i cannot simply put the data as the value for the input box and then send, i actually have to type the input and before delete the original, probably due to some eventhandler listing to keyboard input.

[aduth]

This is still a problem in my testing. I'd think the issue should be reopened.

In the meantime, what's worked for me as a viable alternative for "select all" is:

await page.evaluate( () => document.execCommand( 'selectall', false, null ) );

[swissspidy]

@JoelEinbinder @aslushnikov Can we reopen this?