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Jenny
Jenny

Reputation: 37

Python Selenium element is not reachable by keyboard

acc = self.wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//tr[@valign='top']/td[2]/input[@id='account']")))
acc.send_keys(user['userid'])
time.sleep(1)
pwd = self.wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//tr[@valign='bottom']/td/input[@id='passwordInput1']")))
pwd.send_keys(user['pwd'])

I tried to login to a website and i can successfully input the account name--that is "acc" in the codes, but when it came the pwd, it will display an error message. And i tested that the pwd element can be fine, only the send_keys line went wrong.

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element <input id="passwordInput1" class="inputField1" name="passwordInput1" type="text"> is not reachable by keyboard

It occurred in geckodriver and chromedrive, but was okay with phantomjs. Anyone knows what's happening?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5794

Answers (2)

radoslav006
radoslav006

Reputation: 125

You could try sending text by action chains:

import selenium.webdriver.common.actions
ActionChains(driver).send_keys_to_element(element, password).perform()

Where:
driver is the driver you are using,
element is your located element,
password is the text you want to send.

This solved my similar issue.

Docs: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains

Upvotes: 0

thouger
thouger

Reputation: 435

The keyboard is not available at that time.It mean that using a keyboard is not effective.The situation I've encountered is that the page has changed, and the popup window, for example, alter.You should use :

driver.save_screenshot('screen.png')

try:
  pwd = self.wait.until(
    EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//tr[@valign='bottom']/td/input[@id='passwordInput1']")))
  pwd.send_keys(user['pwd'])
except Exception as e:
    print(e)
    driver.save_screenshot('screen.png')

to see the page status at that time.

Upvotes: 1

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