Selenium Python ElementNotVisibleException

Question

I'm using Selenium with Python, and I'm trying to complete a login form, I've succeed to complete the username field, but could not complete the password. This is the html:

<div class="loginNotVodafone" style="">

        <form id="loginNotVodafone" name="loginNotVodafone" action="https://urlblabla" method="post">      
          <!-- // GDPR select -->

          <fieldset>
          <input type="text" id="userFake2" name="userFake2" value="" autocomplete="off" placeholder="Username">
          <input type="hidden" id="user" name="UserName" class="hiddenTwo" value="">
          </fieldset>

          <fieldset>
          <input id="password" name="Password" value="" type="password" autocomplete="off" placeholder="Password">
          </fieldset>

        </form>
</div>

and this is my code:

inputuser = driver.find_element_by_id("userFake2")
inputuser.send_keys('email@email.com')
sleep(1);

password = driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//fieldset[.//input[@id='password']]")
password.click()
sleep(1);
password.send_keys('password')

I always receive the error:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not 
visible

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\stefa\eclipse-workspace\main.py", line 36, in <module>
password.send_keys('password')
File "C:\Users\stefa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 479, in send_keys
'value': keys_to_typing(value)})
File "C:\Users\stefa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 628, in _execute
return self._parent.execute(command, params)
File "C:\Users\stefa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\stefa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible
(Session info: chrome=67.0.3396.99)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.41.578737 (49da6702b16031c40d63e5618de03a32ff6c197e),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x86_64)

EDIT: with this commands i can let the cursor blink in the password field:

password = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*@id='loginNotVodafone']/fieldset[2]").click()
password.send_keys('password')

but got the error message:

password.send_keys('password')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'send_keys'

Answer 1

there was a problem in the xpath, so i've used an addon called ChroPath for Chrome and it gave me the correct absolute and relative path

so the correct command was:

password = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html[1]/body[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/form[1]/fieldset[3]/input[1]").send_keys('password')

or relative Xpath:

password = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id='loginNotVodafone']//input[@id='password']").send_keys('password')

Answer 2

Try to use WebDriverWait:

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "Password")))

Note: you have to add some imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

WebDriverWait will wait at least 10 seconds until element will be clickable and only then clicks on it. The whole code will be like this:

inputuser = driver.find_element_by_id("userFake2")
inputuser.send_keys('email@email.com')

password = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "Password")))
password.click()
sleep(1); # make sure, that you really need this pause
password.send_keys('password')

EDIT: you can try also to use JavaScript:

inputuser = driver.find_element_by_id("userFake2")
inputuser.send_keys('email@email.com')

password = driver.find_element_by_id("password")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", password)
sleep(1); # make sure, that you really need this pause
password.send_keys('password')