[java] element not interactable exception in selenium web automation

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("[email protected]");
   }
   else{
  WebElement newloginfield = driver.findElemnt(By.cssSelector("#identifierId"));                                      
       newloginfield.sendKeys("[email protected]");
      // 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");
 }

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().

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.

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

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");

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!

In my case the element that generated the Exception was a button belonging to a form. I replaced

WebElement btnLogin = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button"));
btnLogin.click();

with

btnLogin.submit();

My environment was chromedriver windows 10

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("#Passwd")));