How to resolve this error Element not interactable Any solution

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Hello @ faha,

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Gitika · Answer 1 · Nov 24, 2020

Hi, @Faha,

ElementNotInteractableException: Element is not reachable by keyboard

Element is not reachable by keyboard in plain words means that the element can’t be reached using the keyboard, which means you won't physically interact with it even.

Reason

There can be multiple reasons behind the error Element is not reachable by keyboard which can be either of the following:

The element is hidden as modern JavaScript-centric UI styles always keep the ugly raw HTML input field hidden. The hidden attribute could have been implemented through either of the following ways:
- A temporary overlay of some other element over the desired element.
- A permanent overlay of some other element over the desired element.
- Presence of attributes e.g. class="ng-hide", style="display: none", etc
- As per best practices while sending character sequence, you must not attempt to invoke click() or sendKeys() on any <p> or <div> tag, instead invoke click() on the desired <input> tag following the Official locator strategies for the webdriver.

Solution

There are different approaches to address this issue.

Incase of temporary overlay use WebDriverWait inconjunction with ExpectedConditions for the desired element to be visible/clickable as follows:

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("button.nsg-button"))).click();

In case of permanent overlay use executeScript() method from JavascriptExecutor interface as follows:

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

String inputText = "Rozmeen";
WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.id("u_0_b"));
String js = "arguments[0].setAttribute('value','"+inputText+"')"
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(js, myElement);

answered Nov 24, 2020 by Gitika
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("button.nsg-button")

Ok from where did u get this element?

commented Nov 25, 2020 by faha
• 380 points

Hey Gitika

any <p> or <div> tag

I'm familiar with <div> tags but not with these <p> . By not using these tags to bel clicked.

Invoking desired input<tag>. Can you give any example for it?

What exactly are the official locator strategies of webdriver. Are they using xpath or chropath for every element?

I used temporary overlay method but its giving an error.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class ExplicitWati2 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Drivers\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");

ChromeDriver driver =new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("https://www.google.com/");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Selenium");

driver.findElement(By.name("btnK")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

new WebDriverWait.Until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(button.nsg-button))).click();

commented Nov 25, 2020 by faha
• 380 points

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