Merge branch '6.8' into 68-pipeline-backports

Author: elasticmachine

test/functional/page_objects/settings_page.js

@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ export function SettingsPageProvider({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
       log.debug(`setIndexPatternField(${indexPatternName})`);
       const field = await this.getIndexPatternField();
       await field.clearValue();
-      await field.type(indexPatternName);
+      await field.type(indexPatternName, { charByChar: true });
       const currentName = await field.getAttribute('value');
       log.debug(`setIndexPatternField set to ${currentName}`);
       expect(currentName).to.eql(`${indexPatternName}${expectWildcard ? '*' : ''}`);

test/functional/services/lib/leadfoot_element_wrapper/leadfoot_element_wrapper.js

@@ -112,8 +112,15 @@ export class LeadfootElementWrapper {
    * @param {string|string[]} value
    * @return {Promise<void>}
    */
-  async type(value) {
-    await this._leadfootElement.type(value);
+  async type(value, options = { charByChar: false }) {
+    if (options.charByChar) {
+      for (const char of value) {
+        await this._leadfootElement.type(char);
+        await delay(100);
+      }
+    } else {
+      await this._leadfootElement.type(value);
+    }
   }
 
   /**