element not interactable exception in selenium web automation

Question

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");  } 

Answer 1

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.