Error with Selenium File Upload

Question

While uploading a file, i'm getting this error: "Element is not reachable by keyboard" Can you help me fix it? The only thing I want to do is to attach a PDF file. But as the cusror hovers, i'm unable to find the click or upload file.

Code is:-

WebElement uploadElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"registerproduct\"]/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/span/label"));
uploadElement.sendKeys("C:\\Users\\Bharat\\Downloads\\apmr-auction-detail-574.pdf");

The Html is:-

<div class="col s12">
 <div class="file-field input-field">
    <div class="">
         <input id="btn_myFileInput" onchange="checkimagetype()" name="productsheet" style="display:none;" type="file">
         <span class="attached sp_head">
          <label for="btn_myFileInput" class="gray-lite attach_circle left"> 
              <i class="fa fa-paperclip small"></i>
           </label>
         <span class="sp_head">
        Attach specification sheet</span>
          <span id="fileinput-msg"></span> </span>
    </div>
 </div>

Does anyone know a remedy for this?

Answer 1

In your code, you have used "WebElement" to pass the file path, and you have used the <label> tag. You should rather target the <input> tag. Besides, the <input> tag also has style attribute set to "display: none;". So, this code should do the trick:

WebElement uploadElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='btn_myFileInput']"));
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].removeAttribute('style')", uploadElement)
uploadElement.sendKeys("C:\\Users\\Bharat\\Downloads\\apmr-auction-detail-574.pdf");

Comments

Hi there, I have been trying to find the solution for the same issue for a while. @nsv99 your solution worked for me. I m so happy. Big Thank you.!

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Thanks @rachel. As long as it helped :)

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Thank you @nsv999 it worked fine for me

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Hi nsv999, your code worked well for me too. I have upvoted your answer too.

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The above code is inserting file but it displays Choose file button and further the proceed button is not enabled.

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Hey,

What did you want to try? Can you explain it a bit?