selenium invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated

Question

I have this issue with selenium; I cannot find i textinput : it always raises this exeception:

Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated

in this line:

Driver.FindElement(By.Id("ctl00")).Clear();

I try to put waiting like this:

Waiting.Until(driver =>(By.Id("ctl00")));

and

Waiting.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Id("ctl00"))); 

but no luck.

Answer 1

If the exception gets thrown on Clear(), the element is most likely present on the page and the input in a readonly state.

Answer 2

Try to validate XPath first as might be that targeting more than one element. Due to this, element not currently interactable and may not be manipulated.

I faced same issue and found solution with above as my XPath was locating multiple element which exists on DOM but not page.

Correct the element XPath, error will resolve automatically with adding webdriver wait.

Answer 3

I hit the same error, was also a bit confused, but resolved it using the below wait condition. The elementToBeClickable condition checks that the element is both visible and enabled. Perhaps visibility is enough, but Selenium throws an explicit ElementNotVisibleException, so I'm not sure why I wouldn't get that... Anyways, I opted to use a more robust wait condition, and it has worked well for me.

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("myElementId"))).clear();

Answer 4

This happens sometimes when element is not visible. It would happen even when element is visible also. Try using with different tags like xpath or etc.

You can check the element status using below script

driver.findElement(By.className("")).isEnabled()