ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable error while sending text to Email field on Quora using Selenium with Python

Question

Here is my code:

from selenium import webdriver

user = "[email protected]"

browser = webdriver.Chrome("/path/to/browser/")

browser.get("https://www.quora.com/")

username = browser.find_element_by_name("email")

browser.implicitly_wait(10)

username.send_keys(user)

Here is the error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable

I think there is another thread with a similar issue. Either the solutions in that thread didn't work for me or I don't know how to implement the solutions.

find by name return multiple elements you can try with different locators like "ID". — Dhru 'soni
– Dhru 'soni, Commented May 2, 2019 at 4:46
try out the answer given below, and let us know if any one of them worked for you. — cruisepandey
– cruisepandey, Commented May 2, 2019 at 5:52

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-02 05:01:57Z

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find_element_by_name("email")

is present multiple times in DOM. So that wouldn't work.

You can try with this css selector :

input[class*='header_login_text_box'][name='email']

Code :

username = browser.find_element_by_css_selector("input[class*='header_login_text_box'][name='email']")

username.send_keys("[email protected]")

edited May 2, 2019 at 5:01

answered May 2, 2019 at 4:55

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-02 06:33:40Z

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To send a character sequence to the Email field within Login section of Quora you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use the following solution:

Code Block:

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

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
# options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://www.quora.com/")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='title login_title' and text()='Login']//following::div[1]//input[@class='text header_login_text_box ignore_interaction']"))).send_keys("[email protected]")

Browser Snapshot:

answered May 2, 2019 at 6:33

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David Erickson Over a year ago

This worked like a charm for a clicking a link within a popup after clicking a link on a webpage! +1 Nothing else I was trying was working.

murali selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-02 04:55:41Z

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As said in comment, the locator used returning two elements and required element is second one. driver trying to interact with first element, so exception is throwing.

good see in console, the locator returning required one or not.

> $$("[name='email']") (2) [input#__w2_wD9e9Qgz12_email.text, input#__w2_wD9e9Qgz18_email.text.header_login_text_box.ignore_interaction]
> 0: input#__w2_wD9e9Qgz12_email.text 1:
> input#__w2_wD9e9Qgz18_email.text.header_login_text_box.ignore_interaction
> length: 2
> __proto__: Array(0)

go for another locator, if not able to figure it out another locator, then comment, will help you.

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Dhru 'soni · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-02 05:08:12Z

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from selenium import webdriver

user = "[email protected]"

browser = webdriver.Chrome("/path/to/browser/")

browser.get("https://www.quora.com/")

username = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='text header_login_text_box ignore_interaction' and @type='text']")

browser.implicitly_wait(10)

username.send_keys(user)

Here You can find Why ElementNotInteractableException occurs.

edited May 2, 2019 at 5:08

answered May 2, 2019 at 4:54

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cruisepandey Over a year ago

The id you have given is not static and that's a dynamic. For me your ID is not working, I'm sure this wouldn't work for OP as well.

Dhru 'soni Over a year ago

@cruisepandey Done. Update answer with proper xpath.

frianH · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-30 09:57:45Z

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If you are using the Select aproach like:

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select

try this

Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '''//*[@id="ReportViewer1_ctl04_ctl07_ddValue"]''')))).select_by_visible_text(str(x))

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Das_Geek Over a year ago

Looks like you're also calling on the expected_conditions module...did you forget an import statement?

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