element not interactable exception in selenium web automation

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In the below code i cannot send password keys in the password field  i tried clicking the field  clearing the field and sending the keys  But now working in any of the method  But its working if i debug and test    public class TestMail      protected static WebDriver driver      protected static String result       BeforeClass     public static void setup                    System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver   D   geckodriver exe        driver   new FirefoxDriver        driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 60  TimeUnit SECONDS             Test   void Testcase1         driver get  http   mail google com        WebElement loginfield   driver findElement By name  Email        if loginfield isDisplayed            loginfield sendKeys  ragesh gmail in            else    WebElement newloginfield   driver findElemnt By cssSelector   identifierId                                                  newloginfield sendKeys  ragesh gmail in             System out println  This is new login               driver findElement By name  signIn    click          driver findElement By cssSelector   RveJvd    click        driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 15  TimeUnit SECONDS       WebElement pwd   driver findElement By name  Passwd       WebElement pwd   driver findElement By cssSelector   Passwd        pwd click      pwd clear        pwd sendKeys  123     if pwd isEnabled          pwd sendKeys  123        else       System out println  Not Enabled

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I m going to hedge this answer with this  I know it s crap   and there s got to be a better way   See above answers  But I tried all the suggestions here and still got nill  Ended up chasing errors  ripping the code to bits  Then I tried this  import keyboard     keyboard press and release  tab   keyboard press and release  tab   keyboard press and release  tab    repeat as needed keyboard press and release  space     It s pretty insufferable and you ve got to make sure that you don t lose focus otherwise you ll just be tabbing and spacing on the wrong thing  My assumption on why the other methods didn t work for me is that I m trying to click on something the developers didn t want a bot clicking on  So I m not clicking on it

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I had the same problem and then figured out the cause  I was trying to type in a span tag instead of an input tag  My XPath was written with a span tag  which was a wrong thing to do  I reviewed the Html for the element and found the problem  All I then did was to find the input tag which happens to be a child element  You can only type in an input field if your XPath is created with an input tagname

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Try setting an implicit wait of maybe 10 seconds   gmail manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS     Or set an explicit wait  An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further in the code  In your case  it is the visibility of the password input field   Thanks to ainlolcat s comment   WebDriver gmail  new ChromeDriver    gmail get  https   www gmail co in     gmail findElement By id  Email    sendKeys  abcd    gmail findElement By id  next    click    WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait gmail  10   WebElement element   wait until  ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By id  Passwd      gmail findElement By id  Passwd    sendKeys  xyz      Explanation  The reason selenium can t find the element is because the id of the password input field is initially Passwd-hidden  After you click on the  Next  button  Google first verifies the email address entered and then shows the password input field  by changing the id from Passwd-hidden to Passwd   So  when the password field is still hidden  i e  Google is still verifying the email id   your webdriver starts searching for the password input field with id Passwd which is still hidden  And hence  an exception is thrown

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If it s working in the debug  then wait must be the proper solution  I will suggest to use the explicit wait  as given below  WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait new ChromeDriver    5   wait until ExpectedConditions presenceOfElementLocated By cssSelector  quot  Passwd quot

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In my case the element that generated the Exception was a button belonging to a form  I replaced WebElement btnLogin   driver findElement By cssSelector  quot button quot     btnLogin click     with btnLogin submit     My environment was chromedriver windows 10

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I got this error because I was using a wrong CSS selector with the Selenium WebDriver Node js function By css    You can check if your selector is correct by using it in the web console of your web browser  Ctrl Shift K shortcut   with the JavaScript function document querySelectorAll

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Please try selecting the password field like this       WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  10       WebElement passwordElement   wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By cssSelector   Passwd          passwordElement click      passwordElement clear         passwordElement sendKeys  123

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you may also try full xpath  I had a similar issue where I had to click on an element which has a property javascript onclick function  the full xpath method worked and no interactable exception was thrown

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