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Annie Shlepak
Annie Shlepak

Reputation: 103

Python & Selenium: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated

I'm sort of new to Selenium, so after trying to log into Quora website: 

# gets email and password from json
    with open('config.json') as f:
        login_data = json.load(f)
    email = login_data['email']
    password = login_data['pass']

    email_field_xpath = "//input[@name='email']"
    password_field_xpath = "//input[@name='password']"
    login_button_xpath = "//input[@value='Login']"

    # webdriver's going to wait max 10 seconds for email's field, password field, login button to display
    email_field_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(email_field_xpath))
    password_field_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(password_field_xpath))

    email_field_element.clear()
    email_field_element.send_keys(email)
    password_field_element.clear()
    password_field_element.send_keys(password)

    # wait till element is visible before interaction
    login_button_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, login_button_xpath)))
    login_button_element.click()

I've got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): ...

File "quora.py", line 39, in log_in email_field_element.clear()

File "/home/annieshlepak/work/QuoraAutomatization/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 92, in clear self._execute(Command.CLEAR_ELEMENT) ...

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2263

Answers (1)

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52685

There are two input elements with name="email" attribute (you can check it with len(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(email_field_xpath)))

Try to locate required (the second one) element by index

driver.find_elements_by_xpath(email_field_xpath)[1].clear()

or use more specific XPath:

email_field_xpath = '//div[@class="form_column"]/input[@name="email"]'

Upvotes: 1

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